Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metals Reserve Company was ready to sign a contract, calling for delivery of 17,600 long tons of tin concentrates, with second-string Tin King Mauricio Hochschild and all the other Bolivian tin men except the biggest operator of them all, Simon Patino, who is solidly tied up with Britain...
...Bolivians had cut down from a La Paz lamppost the blood-smeared body of President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, July 29). But in Buenos Aires the Bolivian coup had loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...
Juan Domingo Perón was still sitting firmly in his presidential chair. But the Perónist hue & cry over the Bolivian upset supported U.S. State Department charges that Argentine colonels had sparked the tyranny of Bolivian majors. To the Perón crowd, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden and Capitalism (in that order) were to blame. Shrieked a Perón deputy: "Braden has a habit of arranging matters with his checkbook...
...Washington, where the Bolivian uprising came as a surprise, the State Department freely confessed that it was the most welcome revolution in years. If the new regime continues stable, the U.S. will doubtless recognize it shortly...
...Government seemed to spike Perón's dream of an Argentine-dominated Bloque Austral (Southern Bloc), Argentina conceivably might sponsor a counterrevolution. Or she could cut off vital exports to Bolivia of wheat and beef. But the U.S., too, had ^n economic wedge. A new Bolivian tin contract was coming up; the U.S. was expected to go through with its plan to pay some 10% more for Bolivia's chief export...