Amusement, then approval, was the reaction of smart, cosmopolitan Buenos Aires last week to Amos Schwartzenstruber. A potent member of the Mennonite Mission Board of the U. S. and Canada is Mr. Schwartzenstruber. He reached Buenos Aires after an inspection tour through the Mennonite colony in Gran Chaco ("Great Hunting-Ground"), the remote and disputed region over which Bolivia and Paraguay were recently at war de facto if not de jure (TIME, Dec. 24).
"The trials of our colonists have undoubtedly been great," said grave Amos Schwartzenstruber, "but I have been told by all the Schultzen that conditions are improving."
"And...
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