Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Onetime Bolivian Foreign Minister Eduardo Diez de Medina squirmed uncomfortably on his bench in the La Paz Chamber of Deputies one day last week. From the packed galleries above him angry Bolivian spectators hissed & booed, kept up a steady chant of "Down with the Jews! Death to the Jews!" Jingoistic Congressmen waggled their fingers under his nose, made long speeches about national honor. Then, with deliberate gait, gumshoeing Deputy Jordan Velasco strode forward, lifted his eyes to the balconies, bellowed out: "I am proud of being an accuser. And, without wishing to compare myself with Zola, I accuse." Defendant Diez...
...last week well-plucked Condor turned amphibian. Taking to the water, it signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...
...boned up on French tactics at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre. Soon after his return to Paraguay, war broke out with Bolivia. For three years he kept winning promotions in the Chaco jungles, rose to General and Commander in Chief by handing the superior, German-trained Bolivian Army a thorough pasting. When an armistice commission of tne U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru broke the deadlock in 1935, José Félix Estigarribia won for Paraguay, on paper, more territory than it had ever held before...
...strategic material to the U. S., is life and death to Bolivia, constitutes 70% of her exports. Yet the Bolivian mines, thanks to depression and years of mining by their absentee landlord, are run down. Controlling more than half the production, Patino has also managed to restrict the rest. Not for ten years has Bolivia produced the full quota set for her by the British-controlled cartel. Last year Bolivia mined 27,000 tons of ore. To reach an estimated potential of 50,000 tons, the Bolivian mines need back maintenance, new machinery, more labor...
...tried to nationalize tin exports, Bolivia's freelance politicos have followed the Patino formula of playing off the U. S. against Germany. They have made it a three-cushion game by also intriguing with the British, who, to preserve their profitable smelting monopoly, would rather not see Bolivian ore go direct to the U. S. But while Patino was in Spain, his old enemy and the No. 2 Bolivian tin miner, Mauricio Hochschild, took sides. Hochschild went to the U. S. last winter, contracted with Phelps Dodge Corp. to supply tin for its new experimental smelter (TIME...