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...LIFE AND MISADVENTURES OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES?Mariano Tomas?Houghton Mifflin ($3). Few writers of anything except bad checks have spent more time in jail than Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the world-famed Don Quixote. According to Biographer Tomas, it was bad luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about...
Exercises lasting three hours were devoted to Peace, while savage jungle warfare raged less than 800 miles away in the Gran Chaco (see p. 16). Pointing out that five peace pacts of American application now exist, Argentina's courtly, old-school Foreign Secretary Carlos Saavedra Lamas urged that such of the 18 American nations present as had not signed all five should sign as many as they could as soon as they could. Rising to announce that the U. S. will sign Argentina's Pact, Secretary of State Hull praised "the Golden Rule, by which we mean...
...TIME, Jan. 2). Nothing was too good for el Aleman ("The German") who checked Paraguay's steady advance through the pest-ridden Chaco swamps. With more men, more money, better guns. his troops beat off Paraguayan attacks on Bolivia's Verdun in the Chaco. muddy, ramshackle Fort Saavedra (TIME...
...before long Bolivian money began to give out. Mountain Indian boys, with no idea what the war was all about, were conscripted in herds and sent to die in the steaming Chaco. Last week t'.ie lighting Paraguayans struck back and Fort Saavedra fell. So did two more stockaded mounds known as Forts Cuatro Vientos and Bolivar. Slaughtered were 15,000 Bolivian troops, 1.700 within two days. Nine regiments surrendered unconditionally. Of the Bolivian army.in the field only the 7th Division remained intact. General Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda...
...American debt structure reared by International Bankers, however diabolical, simply cannot be tampered with by a general moratorium. How to give Dr. Puig's plan a graceful burial was the pressing problem. It was solved by that most arrogantly graceful of old school diplomats, Foreign Minister Dr. Saavedra Lamas of Argentina, who converses in such formal, rounded periods that he always appears to be reading an oration. Dr. Saavedra Lamas remembered that there still exists in Washington a moribund whatnot called the Inter-American High Commission, created by the First Pan-American Financial Conference in 1915. With vast relief...