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Show BOLIVIA LINES UP WITH AMERICANS SOUTH AMERICAN STATE HANDS PASSPORTS TO GERMAN MINISTER MIN-ISTER AND HIS STAFF. Was First of Our Southern Neighbors to Announce Its Support of the United States in Protesting Against German Blockade. La Paz, Bolivia. The German minister and his staff were on April 13 handed their passports by the Bolivian Bo-livian government, wtih a note declaring de-claring that diplomatic relations between be-tween Bolivia and Germany have been severed. . Bolivia was the first South American Amer-ican state to announce its support of the United States in protesting against the German submarine blockade. In a note to the German government under un-der date of February 8, the Bolivian ernment denounced the German blockade block-ade proclamation as an infringement of the "impresciptible rights of civilization civili-zation and humanity," and declared that it "consolidates its attitude with that of the United States government." govern-ment." The Bolivian press unanimously unani-mously supported the position of the government. Bolivia is one of the sma?jest of the South American states, with an area of 700,000 square miles and a popula tion of a little more than 2,250,000. It has no merchant marine or navy, but has an army with a war strength of 88,000, which is credited wtih being one of the best trained and equipped in Latin-America. |