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...murder of Editor Grana, scion of one of Lima's 60 reigning families and bitter editorial enemy of the dominant Apra Party, touched off the biggest political crisis since the Apristas came to power two years...
...Guam's Apra Harbor 2,100 Japs marched aboard a Jap-manned transport en route to their homeland. By December 50,000 more-the last U.S. prisoners in the Pacific-will be returned. Some 90,000 British-held Japs will still remain, and the Dutch have announced that they intend to keep another 13,500 indefinitely in Indonesia for dockside and other heavy labor...
Haya's Apra (People's Party) was out in the open and had become the majority party in Peru. Haya himself, now an outspoken foe of Communism, was all steamed up about paying back defaulted Peruvian bonds to the U.S. (so that he could get new funds for his industrial, irrigation and Indian-aid projects). With the U.S. State Department he stood in high favor. And in capitals like Santiago and Caracas, government was now in the hands of leftists, some of whom (Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt, for one) had known Haya in exile...
...What Apra Wants. In some ways he was still the old Haya. Throughout his tour he still stuck up for continental unity. "What I am fighting about," he cried, "is that in this hemisphere there is a United States of the north and disunited states of the south. Small and big can never live together. We must make ourselves big by uniting. We Apristas are against customs barriers and want political and economic cooperation among all Latin American countries...
...punched out his party's home program in Apra-style slogans: "We don't want to take riches away from those who have them; we want to create riches for those who haven't them. In the old days democracy meant liberty without bread. Today totalitarianism means bread without liberty. Apra wants bread with liberty...