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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...
...Government took immediate and drastic measures. Worried President Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo declared a state of siege throughout Bolivia, clamped martial law on the five tin-mining areas of the Patiño holdings. At week's end it was announced that a plot by Leftist Revolutionaries had been nipped in the bud. The plan, said the Government, was to cause the forces of the Bolivian army to be dispersed throughout the mining areas, then in provincial capitals, to create disturbances which would end in revolution. This week the Government announced the arrest of two Bolivian leaders...
...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...
...arranged various policy-defending junkets. His Minister of War, General Juan N. Tonazzi, had gone to Paraguay. A military mission headed by Inspector General Martin Gras was about to leave for Peru. President Castillo, himself this week planned to meet Bolivia's President General Enrique Peñaranda at the Bolivian border. But it was the Brazilian junket of General Justo, who wanted to fight the Axis, which was most likely to impress Argentina and South America...