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...vicious little Gran Chaco war between Bolivia & Paraguay last week reached its Gettysburg. Under French-trained General Estigarribia the Paraguayans, born short-end fighters, had harried the Bolivians northwestward across the jungle to the Pilcomayo River, backed them up against their last Chaco stronghold, Fort Ballivian. The Paraguayans planned to take Ballivian and stop. They found the Bolivians entrenched in open hayfields, for the first time in the war. General Estigarribia's artillery bombarded the trenches for two days. On the second the first wave of Paraguayans stumbled out into the hayfields in a close formation bayonet charge...
While Zepeda lingered in Mexico City, Nicaraguan National Guardsmen prowled about Sandino's back-country stronghold on the Rio Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
...between nations be settled in a more rational, civilized manner. Anti-war organizations must be enthusiastic about their cause and must be continuously active, but no appreciable good for the cause will be gained by marching around displaying placards or shouting anathemas against war, especially in such a conservative stronghold as Harvard. Constructive action in the form of cultivating intelligent thinking will do more than flinging curses at Mars before a mob who enjoys the whole affair as splendid entertainment. (For if a cause is allowed to be ridiculed, it can never hope to inspire confidence...
...last week became the world's No. 1 Socialist city when it stepped into the shoes out of which Socialist Vienna was knocked last month by force of Fascist arms. The Labor Party swept up a comfortable majority of the seats in London's County Council, Conservative stronghold for the past 27 years, and took over the job of spending $600,000,000 in the next three years on education, firefighting, housing and poor relief for 4,500,000 people...
Deep in the Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...