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...Smitest Thou Me? The Bolivian regime of Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel last week discovered and scotched a plot to overthrow it. Warned in the nick of time, the Government caught one conspirator actually handing out cash to soldiers. Bigger fish captured were ex-Minister of War Ernesto Hertzog, two generals, and Lawyer Nestor Galindo, charged with distributing a 20,000,000 peso ($450,000) corruption fund. Biggest fish: German-born Argentine-naturalized Tin Magnate Mauricio Hochschild, jailed as principal...
...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...
...kicking upstairs (to an innocuous post as Counselor of Embassy in Havana) of Allan Dawson, OARA's expert on Bolivia, because he protested against the State Department's inability to make up its mind about the new Bolivian regime...
Seemingly out of place every morning when the junior class lines up at formation is a slightly-built, always smiling officer clad in a distinctive, powder blue uniform. Having heard scuttlebutt going around that he was from (a) the Bolivian Coast Guard, (b) the Chilean Army, and (c) the Nicaraguan Merchant Marine, we sought him out the other evening, just by way of accurately determining his identity. We found out that he is Captain Manual Higueras of the Peruvian Air Force...
...unless imports increase or consumption decreases, there is little chance of adding to present stocks. Before the war, practically all U.S. tin requirements were supplied by the Malayan and East Indies mines. At present the U.S. receives tin from the high-cost Bolivian mines at the annual rate of 18,000 tons; and from a comparatively new source, the Belgian Congo, at the annual rate of 12,000 tons. A little more than 20,000 tons comes from reclaiming operations. Imports from China, French West Africa, and Mexico, coming in driblets, might be increased in the future...