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...sprawling Casa del Pueblo, Apra headquarters in Lima, baggy, beaming Apra Chief Victor Raul Haya de la Torre faced his weekly "leaders' class." This time the men on the hard benches in the whitewashed, barnlike hall got no lesson on public speaking or Peruvian finance...
Afterwards, Pedagogue Haya, whose left-wing political movement began as a workers' university a quarter of a century ago, got down to party business. Because gringo eyes are on Apra, he warned, Aprista pupils must work harder than ever. Classes must be expanded. Discipline, already tight, must be tighter. Aprista workers, said Haya, must learn that strikes are weapons of last resort and must not be used irresponsibly, for "that would be like a traffic cop pulling out a revolver and shooting every time someone crossed the street on a red light...
...Diego Luis Molinari, with seven gaudily uniformed granaderos de San Martin and some of South America's finest rhetoric. He was met by Argentine commercial technicians. Molinari and his grenadiers had already splashed grandiloquently through the halls and plazas of most of Latin America. Peruvians were impressed. Said Apra Chief Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre: "We need their wheat and meat." Perón has already promised Chile $175,000,000 to tie her to Argentina in bonds of trade. Bolivia's new Government got another $62,500,000. Peru might...
Since 1945 La Prensa had stood on the editorial opinion that fanatics who had spent 16 years in illegal activity would never be fit to govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...
...only recently, in deference to La Prensa-led opposition, they had put off the controversial oil deal till July. To place themselves beyond suspicion during the investigation, the three Apra Cabinet ministers resigned, thereby causing the Cabinet to fall. Apra's La Tribuna offered a $3.000 reward for the murderer...