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...Bolivian Government of President Gualberto Villarroel, suspected of totalitarian connections and unrecognized except by Argentina, tried to clean itself up last week. Finance Minister Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro, intellectual leader of the December revolt which put the regime in power (TIME, Jan. 3), announced that the Government had expropriated all Axis firms. The day before, three members of the regime quit...
Though this two-year supply is big enough to free the U.S. of its present dependence on Bolivia, Washington is not indifferent to Bolivian tin. The prevailing WPB view is that the U.S. should actually build up a stockpile of as much as four years' supply...
Backed up by Jonas Ingram, his ships and his planes, the Uruguayan Govern ment announced its refusal to recognize the Villarroel regime. This action was a stinging slap for Argentina's Colonels. The Bolivian regime of Gualberto Villarroel, recognized only by Argentina, was firmly in the hemispheric doghouse; the U.S. was trying to line up its Latin friends in a united front to resist any further aggressions by Argentina. Then, when the stage was set, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to loose a long-advertised blast against the Argentine and Bolivian regimes...
When it came this week, it was a mild bleat against the Bolivian Government and "subversive groups hostile to the Allied cause." The Secretary refused to recognize Bolivia's Villarroel, but said nothing directly about Argentina's Colonels. For reasons of his own, President Roosevelt at the last moment had instructed Cordell Hull to erase all direct references to Argentina...
Nearly a fortnight had passed since the U.S. State Department, much criticized and currently enduring a reorganization (see p. 16), prepared a damning allegation that Argentine and Nazi forces inspired the Bolivian revolutionary regime of President-Major Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, Jan. 17). Up to this week, the State Department held its fire. The official explanation: diplomatic communications with 18 Latin American countries were unusually slow...