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Because the new Government seemed to spike Perón's dream of an Argentine-dominated Bloque Austral (Southern Bloc), Argentina conceivably might sponsor a counterrevolution. Or she could cut off vital exports to Bolivia of wheat and beef. But the U.S., too, had ^n economic wedge. A new Bolivian tin contract was coming up; the U.S. was expected to go through with its plan to pay some 10% more for Bolivia's chief export...
...Bloque Austral dream was further punctured when Paraguay's President Hi-ginio Morinigo shuffled his Cabinet and moved toward democratic rule...
With Perón moving swiftly, confidently to create Argentine leadership in South America for the old scheme of a bloque austral (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru), last week's U.S. proposal for hemisphere military cooperation came none too soon. But it pointed to fresh U.S. initiative in Latin American affairs (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Abandoning his tour of Western Austral ia and summoning his Cabinet, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies hurried back to Melbourne this week. The chips were down in the Far East ; the next thing to be seen was Japan's hand. Bob Menzies said that the people of Australia were standing with a catch in their throats in the most vital hour of their history. "In the mercy of God bombs have not yet fallen in this country. But they...
Congo. That was last August. Soon other colonies followed: the five dots of French territory in India; in the Pacific, New Caledonia, Tahiti, the Gambier Islands, Tuamotu, the Marquesas and Austral Islands...