Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington. One knot of the tangle was in Washington. Tall, dark, earnest Dr. Enrique Lozada, "Head of the Bolivian Mission," was in the odd position of trying to secure recognition for a Government which he himself did not entirely recognize. An avowed and convincing liberal, he has lived 14 years in the U.S., and has no direct connection with any Bolivian party. Just after the La Paz revolt he quit his job as adviser to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Last week he paced disconsolately around the orphaned Bolivian Embassy, not knowing what would happen...
Obviously disturbed by the pro-Fascist elements in the Villarroel regime, Dr. Lozada is well aware that nothing like U.S. democracy can now exist in Bolivia, where only 100,000 of some 3,500,000 people have the vote. But, within Bolivian limits, he was trying to make the new Government toe the democratic mark. One move was to cable five conditions which the regime would have to meet before he would serve as its official representative...
...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...
...Department had burned its fingers by hastening to recognize the new government in Argentina, which turned out to be anti-Allied. Therefore Secretary of State Cordell Hull now moved with caution and suspicion on the question of recognizing the new Bolivian government. From the Department view, the deposed government of President Enrique Peñaranda, stooge of the tin-mine owners, had been satisfactory; after all, Bolivian tin kept flowing north, and that was the main thing. But from Washington came indications that the new government intended to cooperate fully with the U.S. The new government's "confidential agent...
...started political life as one of the wildest guerrillas in all of Brazil's wild history. An expert, irrepressible revolutionist, he was often in hiding, was once caught and imprisoned for six months. He was driven into exile, struggling across the wilderness of the Matto Grosso to the Bolivian frontier. After lean years among the outs, he was one of the leaders of the 1930 revolution which anchored his chief, Getulio Vargas, in Guanabara Palace. Subsequent revolutionary movements failed, and João Alberto had much to do with their failure...