Show A WASHINGTON BYSTANDER 1 BY HERBERT c. c PLUMMER David WASHINGTO V IV KauI- KauI man Am n minister to Bolivia what It means means' to see war clouds blacken the tho horizon and then disappear almost as quickly as the they came S And AmI we have Itac haveS S his word for It f that the experience S enco ence IS i no flO fun 5 To be an ambassador ambas- ambas ot of neUtral neU- neU n a country countr and 5 S. S to be situated between be- be tween two other I I II I nations expect expect- I it 5 ing that an any moS moment mo- mo S ment they will fly I ISS w SS f at each others other's I k throat is is' is far I from being the them I HERa T m in 0 s t pleasant I thin thing I ii the world That was Mr I Kaufman's lot while he was at lis Ius post in La Paz PaT during the recent dIsturbance between Bolivia and I Paraguay The American minister is back Inthe in inthe the United States after r 10 months of service at La Paz laz Ye We sat with him for well over two hours the theother theother other afternoon and heard him describe de- de scribe In detail what took place In BolIvia last December when the crisis between Bolivia and Paraguay Paragua arose aros I THE OUTBREAK lie Ho described vents events in La Paz when the populace was sas told that the Bolivian garrison of Fort lla dla had been surprised Twenty Twenty- two BolIvIans were killed on that occasIon and 20 men talen prisoners prison prison- ers The cit city was aflame he said Thousands gathered before the palace and demanded be declared immediately But it was impossible Those empowered to declare war were at that moment in inthe inthe the city or of Antofagasta paying their respects to Herbert I do donot donot not know what would have happened happened hap hap- if those In charge of the gob gob- had been in the capital that night Ye We were interested in hearing from him just what did happen at atthe atthe the American legation the night several thousands jammed I outsIde the gates Yell Well do do doI I remember saId the I minIster Of course COUlse you rou know now the reason for fOl that visit Two AmerIcan aviators had red offered their servIces to the Bolivian government in the event war was declared That ad act stirred the people as they have ha seldom been before 5 wr 1 was at the legation at the time In comI an with several guests guestt Someone came up to me with word that there was as a crowd gates and wanted to minister to ap pear S SHUGE HUGE THRONG r I wc wem to a window opened it and stepped out on the tho balcon balcony There as far as my e eyes eg could see was nothing but a black mass or of humanity Immediately upon seeing see see- ing the minister n a shout of Viva Vi I Americanos' Americanos went up UI and a b band nd struck up what it thought was the Star Spangled Banner but which was in reality Yankee Doodle And then cries for a sp speech ch were heard I said only a few words and then turnIng to one of my guests asked that he act as my interpreter At the conclusion of the speech the crowd marched away in fashion The Bolivians merely wanted to show their affection to I the United States |