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...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...
...Seriously Compromised." The notorious Major Elias Belmonte Pabon, former Bolivian attache at the legation in Berlin, was an intimate collaborator with the Sicherheitsdienst (a combination intelligence, espionage and sabotage service) officials and received an annual greasing of 20,000 Reichsmarks from the German Foreign Office. The conspiracy, in which Peron & Co. took active parts, was aimed at the overthrow of the Bolivian government, where a pro-axis Putsch was indeed brought off in December...
...founded his diplomatic reputation on his settlement of the Chaco war (1932-35) between Paraguay and Bolivia. After three years of feckless negotiations, Braden took to the radio, bluntly addressed the Paraguayan and Bolivian people over the delegates' heads. A settlement followed quickly...