Evening star

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September after Nicaragua put out

her now famous airmail map series.

"Let's flip back the album pages

and look at some earlier adhesives

which have played their part in in

ternational feuds of this sort.

"First there is the Dominican Re

public map set of 1900. These stamps

'type A-17) made the Haitians mad

because the frontier line was drawn

to show how much of the island the

Dominicans claimed. The dispute

was 35 years old then, and it wasn't

settled until 1935.

‘‘Next came the Gran Chaco issues

of Bolivia and Paraguay. In 1927

Paraguay started off with a map

stamp (A-49) which included the

‘Chaco Paraguayo’ in her territory.

Bolivia replied next year with one

(A-69) which labeled the same area

'Chaco Boliviano’ and put it inside

Bolivia’s border.

“Wilderness clashes started in the

Chaco in 1928, but the ill feeling dated

back almost to the time when the

countries won their independence

from Spain. As the fighting went

on Bolivia stressed her claims with

two more map stamps <A-71) in 1931

and a whole set (A-79) in 1935. One

of the 1935 issues is illustrated.

"Paraguay produced a large stamp

In 1932 <A-60), giving a detailed map

of the ‘Chaco Paraguayo,’ which in

•hided even more land than her 1937

map stamp. And so It went until

tee peace was patched up In 1935.

"Then there was that Argentine

•tamp in 1936 which pictured a map

of South America and caused a furore

by reasserting the old Argentine claim

to Britain's Falkland Islands (‘Islas

Malvinas’ to the Argentines). In

cidentally the cartographer nipped off

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1937). Washington, D.C., 1937-11-14. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1937-11-14/ed-1/?sp=30

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1937-11-14.