South American Quarrels No one is paying much attention to
the fighting between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco, but it has broken out on a considerable scale, and the League of Nations' endeavours to secure first an - armistice and then. peace seem to have broken down when they had looked for • some months like ' succeeding. That the League's writ should not run decisively in that remote region is intelligible enough, particularly since the United States is outside the League. But it is significant that the Chairman of the League Council sub-committee dealing with the concurrent dispute between Colombia and Peru should have reported at Geneva last week that the peace negotiations between the two countries were hanging fire, and that meanwhile both of them were purchasing armaments. There is something wrong with international organization if two States which reject the mediation of a League of Nations of which they are both .members can be supplied from private sources with aims wherewith to fight it out instead.
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