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...failure of elegant U.S. Ambassador Pierre Boal, who was inclined to see most things through the eyes of Bolivia's tin-mine owners, to warn Washington of the Bolivian revolution (TIME...
...State Department was thoroughly scooped on the Bolivian revolt. No hint or word of the impending uprising had come from the U.S. Ambassador, socialite Pierre de Lagarde Boal (rhymes with goal), an elegant career diplomat whose dispatches have unfailingly reflected the views of Bolivian tin-mine owners. From able Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, there had been hints of forthcoming trouble, but since Norman Armour's business is Argentina, they were no more than that. The State Department had no solid, fresh information on which to base judgments on Bolivian affairs...
Because of one thing Galarza chose to do, he got a letter from Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The letter castigated Galarza for spreading charges that U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had intervened with the Bolivian Government against the strikers. Galarza answered: if an impartial jury could prove his charges erroneous, he would make a "complete retraction." His resignation from the Pan American Union was the one thing left for him to do, and none knew better than Ernesto Galarza that it probably was not enough. Many a knotty problem of Latin-American economy must be solved, many...
...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...
...Continued the current shake-up of U. S. diplomats, replacing political appointees in Latin-American posts with career men. To replace genial old (74) Indiana Novelist Meredith Nicholson as Minister to Nicaragua went Pierre de Lagarde Boal, 45, now Embassy counselor in Mexico City. To replace genial, middle-aged (55) Findley Burtch Howard as Minister to Paraguay went Wesley Frost, recently Embassy counselor in Santiago, Chile...