Word: vanguardia
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When this pompous comedy had been played through, the Pan-American parley swiftly appointed a committee of five to investigate the original battle at Fort Vanguardia (TIME...
Soon official statements were made by the respective foreign offices in such terms that undoubtedly one or the other set of diplomats was lying. The Bolivians said that their troops were sound asleep at six a. m. in Fort Vanguardia on unquestionably Bolivian territory when they were stealthily attacked by Paraguayan soldiers. The diplomats of Paraguay said that their troops had discovered a Bolivian fort on unquestionably Paraguayan territory, had requested the Bolivian garrison to withdraw and had been fired upon for their pains. At approximately the same hour last week both governments claimed that their victorious forces held...
...face of such an attitude" as Bolivia's, there was no choice but "to proceed in the same manner." The diplomatic negotiations were severed before any common sense steps had been taken and probably before the governments themselves really knew exactly what had happened at remote Fort Vanguardia. The significance of such diplomatic procedure-senseless and mischievous, though perfectly "correct" and "usual"-is of greater importance to the world than any additional blood which may be spilled between 2,155,000 Bolivians and 853,000 Paraguayans-scarcely as numerous as the denizens of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens...
Olympic Stadium at Manila, attended by 10,000 people. Resolutions were passed, one of them for a boycott on the pro-Quezon newspapers-The Herald, El Debat, Vanguardia, Taliba and Watawat. One speaker said that if the Collectivista leaders did not reform their abuses there was no remedy but the bolo knife. Another declared that he had had to refuse permission to one of his followers in Cebu who wanted to assassinate Osmeua. " If it were not for me," he asserted, " Osmena would be dead...