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...slanderous to charge that Peru "had been improving the truce." The truth is that Peru accepted the armistice under the double condition that guarantees be offered to Peruvian residents of Ecuador, and that a decree of the Quito Government referring to mobilization be revoked. This last condition was only fulfilled on the 31st of July at twelve noon, and at 6 p.m. of the same day the Peruvian troops ceased firing...
This week, with attendance averaging over 4,000 a week, and the press devoting columns of space to it, the Buenos Aires show drew to a close. It moves next to Montevideo, then to Rio. The Mexico City exhibition goes next to Santiago, Lima, Quito; the Bogotá show will travel to Caracas and Havana. By year's end Nelson Rockefeller's convoys will have visited ten Latin-American capitals...
Last week tempers in Lima and Quito were shorter than usual. Each capital suspected that the other was trying to buy U.S. support with concessions. Other American capitals suspected, with more reason, that Axis and pro-Axis provocateurs had planted and watered the first suspicion. The Spanish Ambassador to Peru, Pablo de Churruca, Marqués de Aycinena, who once studied the problem for Arbiter Alfonso XIII, was shrewdly suspected of having put pressure on Peru to hold out for a lion's share of the territory...
However it started, one night there was a burst of shooting along the amorphous border. Soon a grown-up battle was raging, with machine guns and artillery backing up the rifle fire, with Peruvian warplanes roaring overhead. Quito said Peruvian bombers had destroyed the military barracks and a church in the Ecuadorian town of Chacras, that frontier forces had attacked at other points on the frontier. Lima claimed that Ecuadorian troops had tried to cross into Peruvian territory, had been driven back. After two days the fighting died down...
...force. In Washington, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá diplomats hastened to proffer their good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue of Simon Bolivar and sang the Ecuadorian national anthem...