Letters, Jul. 15, 1935

Justice for Chaco

Sirs:

In your issue of June 24 you publish an article under the caption "Peace without Victory." Many of the statements in this article are so grossly inaccurate that they cannot go unchallenged.

You say that "the Gran Chaco is rated as a 'green hell' by romantic Author-Explorer Julian Duguid." This popular conception of the Chaco undoubtedly has been created by Duguid's Green Hell. The truth, however, is that Duguid's Green Hell is not the Chaco. He has never been in the Chaco proper and consequently...

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