Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enrique Sanchez de Lozada, onetime Bolivian diplomat, now a Williams professor; Dr. Carlos Garcia-Mata, an Argentine businessman; and Roger W. Riis, son of the late social worker, Jacob Riis...
...being fought in the Western Hemisphere. Two of this battle's most serious skirmishes in Latin America went against the Nazis. The flare-up between Peru and Ecuador appeared to be under control, as both sides announced that they were willing to cease hostilities and arbitrate. The Bolivian Government mopped up the busted fragments of the coup planned by Naziphile Major Elias Belmonte (TIME, July...
...That the Bolivian coup had been planned by the Nazis, none doubted. While Berlin grumbled unconvincingly about "U.S. aggression," Bolivia's President, General Enrique Peňaranda, released a letter to the newspapers. It had been mailed on June 9 in Berlin by Major Belmonte, Bolivian Air Attache in Germany, to the German Minister at La Paz, Ernst Wendler. According to President Peňaranda, it had been intercepted by "the intelligence service of a foreign power fighting against Germany" and turned over...
Paraguay, this week, without specific reference to the Bolivian coup, decreed the death penalty for anyone "inducing a foreign state to declare war on Paraguay or conspiring for the same end," heavy prison sentences for anyone trying "to change the Constitution by violent means...
...these troubled waters the Nazis have fished lovingly. Well-heeled and well-organized, Germans in Bolivia have plugged their cause openly, have dominated radio stations and many newspapers. Into the Nazi camp they have tried to lure many Bolivian bigwigs...