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That the Bolivian coup had been planned by the Nazis, none doubted. While Berlin grumbled unconvincingly about "U.S. aggression," Bolivia's President, General Enrique Peňaranda, released a letter to the newspapers. It had been mailed on June 9 in Berlin by Major Belmonte, Bolivian Air Attache in Germany, to the German Minister at La Paz, Ernst Wendler. According to President Peňaranda, it had been intercepted by "the intelligence service of a foreign power fighting against Germany" and turned over...
From two miles up in the Andes last weekend came word of a Putsch that failed. In La Paz, Bolivia's President General Enrique Peñaranda suddenly announced that his country was in a state of siege after the discovery of plans for a Nazi-led revolution...
Just what the plot was General Peñaranda did not care to say, but it seemed a good bet that it had something to do with a man who was supposed to be 6,000 miles away, a fire-eating, 36-year-old aviator, Major Elias Belmonte, Bolivia's Air Attaché in Berlin...
Elected President in March, General Peñaranda, no politician, has done his best to steer his brawling country toward democracy and an amiable relationship with the U.S. His biggest coup to date was to negotiate a contract with the U.S. for Bolivia's full output of tungsten, despite the fact that Japan at first made a higher...
...weeks ago President Peñaranda's Cabinet suddenly sent him a circular telegram warning of unspecified Nazi plottings, resigned in a body to give him a free hand in dealing with them. This week it looked as though he had made good use of his opportunity. Whether the Nazi plot was led by Belmonte or others, the President had moved fast and drastically. His score to date: four newspapers shuttered, German Minister Ernst Wendler given his walking papers, an unspecified number of Bolivians arrested, including Victor Paz Estenssoro, who until five weeks ago was Finance Minister...