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...Roque, quiet residential quarter of Paraguay's capital, Asunción, there was an atmosphere of uncommon agitation last week. Ragged newsboys chewing wild oranges filled the streets, shouting thickly "Votación National!" Huge posters announced the Revolutión Nacionalista Paraguaya. Beswastikaed cops patrolled the streets. To the Colegio Alemán continually went little groups of three or four ragged, sometimes barefoot, men, solicitously escorted by well-dressed attendants who passed them inside and went forth again to seek other groups. The Colegio Alemán is one of ten electoral centers in San Roque...
...expiration of his legal term, aided the military clique in its plan to dismiss pro-Allied Foreign Minister Luis Argana and reorient Paraguayan policy toward neutral Buenos Aires rather than toward belligerent Rio. The Morinigo Government stopped work on the new $1,000,000 airport under construction near Asunción. The protests of bearded U.S. Ambassador Wesly Frost produced no results and U.S. airport engineers packed to go home...
...When Asunción's Police Chief Lieut. Colonel Mishuito Villasboa fortnight ago ordered the police cadets in his school to wear arm bands identifying the countries from which they were descended, a great majority showed up sporting swastikas. Last week Police Chief Villasboa showed his own stripe. He christened a newborn son Hitler Hirohito Musito...
...Argentine Buenos Aires, Italian Ambassadorial pressure had sufficed to get Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator banned. In Paraguayan Asunción, where diplomacy failed, Axis sympathizers took direct action. Five masked hijackers stuck up a film messenger, made off with reels intended for the premiere. Disgusted but unimpressed by these wild-&-woolly shenanigans, United Artists flew another print from Peru...
...continuismo ; he suspended the Constitution when he seized power last September. But his opposition is also lawless. One exiled Paraguayan is onetime Dictator Rafael Franco, who has been supporting himself manufacturing soap in a small apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay. Last week, through the censor ship that envelops remote Asunción, came reports of a Franquista revolt. Colonel Franco's brother Laconich hopped a plane from Montevideo for the Paraguayan capital, but at the request of General Morinigo's Government Montevideo police kept Rafael Franco where he was. A communiqué from Asunción announced that...