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...that Corps Commander Colonel Rafael Franco, 39, had led them victoriously in person to the very border of Bolivia proper. Something seemed wrong when their commanding officer, General José Felix Estigarribia, marched them home to poverty-stricken Paraguay, when Foreign Minister Luis Riart signed a modest peace protocol with Bolivia, when the Paraguayan Congress approved it and when President Eusebio Ayala ordered the Paraguayan Army demobilized and Bolivian prisoners returned to Bolivia. The Army had won the war; the politicians were throwing away the victory. Last month General Estigarribia charged Colonel Franco with organizing a so-called National Front...
Inasmuch as the Gran Chaco peace protocol, ratified by the Paraguayan Congress, and the international South American declaration in 1932 that "military conquest grants no sovereignty," are now part of Paraguay's national law, Franco could do nothing last week but agree to abide by those treaties...
...South American nations that had wangled the peace protocol and had just accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to a great Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, Colonel Franco was last week a piercing pain in the neck...
With China more than ever prostrated by her white-man-made silver crisis, Japanese Army commanders in Manchukuo and at Boxer Protocol garrisons in North China proceeded to make impossible demands on the Chinese Government, demands the mere granting of which would mean the abdication of the Chinese Government in North China...
Died. Warren Delano Robbins, 49, U. S. Minister to Canada, first cousin of President Roosevelt; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A career diplomat since 1909, he became chief of the Division of Protocol of the State Department in 1931, Minister to Canada...