Show 1932 SEES CHANGES IN WORLD governments spain and iraq most important nations affected washington removal at 01 mandate restrictions from iraq and its erection into tin BO independent state wits was one of the outstanding changes affecting the worlds family of nations during the past year according to a bulletin from the national geographic socie tys headquarters in washington among the other important cann changes es listed in the summary are the crent creation lon of man ilan chou kuo the setting up of catalonia as an autonomous unit within the spanish republic and the granting of a constitution by the king of slaw siam iraq Is the first of the group of mandated territories established following the world war to graduate into the group of independent nations says the bulletin great britain gare up all of its special privileges as holder of the mandate and the new state became a full fledged member or of tue the league of nations following japanese occupation of manchuria that territory together with the province of af dehol to the west was made into the state of man with pu pit onetime one time heir to the chinese empire as aa ruler western powers have not officially recognized the new state catalonia given autonomy the granting of autonomy to catalonia made up of the four provinces of northeastern spain fulfilled the aspirations pi rations which the Catalon lans have held for centuries the newly empowered state has a unique status among the major divisions of the spanish republic it has its own president parliament cabinet and courts and will collect its own taxes foreign affairs however will remain under control of the central government at madrid after an almost bloodless revolution during the past summer king of slam siam promised a constitution ution this new charter for the siamese was made public on november 19 in arabia no major changes in boundaries or sovereignties sovereign ties took place during the year but the principal state of the peninsula received a new name the country embracing all of central arabia and extend extending Dg from the red sea to the persian gulf formerly known as the kan kingdoms doms of the henaz and was early in october ber given the title INIng kingdom dom of saudi arabia ararat one of the most famous mountains in the world chang changed ed hands during 1932 the mountain was traded jo 0 o turkey by persia in for a strip of territory along the turkish persian border to the south next nest to the fl fighting in manchuria the longest continued military conflict during 1932 over boundaries or sov has been that in the C gran ran chaco of south america between bolivia and paraguay aach contestant demands that its title to this large region south of the center of the continent shall be reco recognized in late weeks spirited fighting has continued along the string of forts velch extends through the center of the chaco merry go round in chile since june 1 chile has had five changes in presidents and for a time was wag ruled by a socialistic regime the changes have all been effected other than by elections but little fighting has bag occurred the latest armed contest over territory in south america began in august on the putumayo river niver one of the headwater streams of the amazon system the dispute was initiated when peruvian citizens seized the town of leticia from colombia the community Is still in the hands of peruvians in the near east a dispute between syria and iraq over their common boundary line between the euphrates and 71 tigris als rivers was advanced toward solution by a report of the syro iraqi frontier commission to the league of nations recommending a line which lay between those claimed by the two contestants A frontier contest which involved the operation of customs between france and switzerland was settled amicably by a decision of the court of international justice at the hague Is s Graven hage liage during june the decision was tn in favor of switzerland and OP operated aerated to permit a free customs zone near geneva but in french territory france formally accepted the decision in september and ordered the withdrawal of her customs officials from the zone work toward solution of the boundary dispute between guatemala and lion honduras dums in central america was carried toward a decision by an arbitration commission headed by chief justice hushes hughes the united states war department played an important part in this work by assigning array army air corps flyers last summer to prepare an aerial map of the disputed line the controversy between bean ean norway and denmark over portions of the east coast of greenland is still under consideration by the court of international justice at the hague |