Word: aranda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broad-shouldered, stolid General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, President of Bolivia, last week led off a parade of foreign chiefs of state on the Roosevelt guest list.* He met his host on the south lawn of the White House, that evening was guest of honor at a state dinner...
...Where will she fight?" they asked. But in the neighboring capitals of Peru and Chile there was a certain uneasiness. Peruvian imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes...
Land-locked Bolivia last week followed impatient Brazil into the war. The Bolivian Congress must still ratify a state-of-war decree issued by President Enrique Peñaranda, but to all effects Bolivia became the second South American country at war with the Axis...
...aranda's Problems. Ernesto Galarza, Chief of the Pan American Union's Labor and Social Information Division, accused the U.S. Government of likewise urging Bolivia to stand pat on present wage levels. His charge: U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had discussed the new labor code with President Peñaranda "for the obvious purpose of delaying the application of the wage provisions. . . . Clearly his purpose was to head off a rise in the cost of tin to the U.S. . . . The American Government is placing itself in the position of attempting to aid in the denial of those...
...difficult and ticklish situation for President Peñaranda. Tin is Bolivia's most important export, and Patino's tin constitutes almost half of the local production. It was also a difficult situation for the United Nations, which need all of Bolivia's tin for war purposes. Financially Bolivia was in a bad way, with prices spiraling despite credits from the U.S. President Peñaranda faced a fundamental problem in human and economic relations which the necessities of war no longer permitted to be postponed...