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...Bolivian Affair is close to a showdown. The climax will feature high diplomacy, cold economics and a strong dash of cops-&-robbers. If it turns out well, the U.S. and 18 of the 20 "Good Neighbors" will have won a resounding victory. If it does not, the whole Good Neighbor policy in Latin America will have suffered a grave defeat...
...Washington. One knot of the tangle was in Washington. Tall, dark, earnest Dr. Enrique Lozada, "Head of the Bolivian Mission," was in the odd position of trying to secure recognition for a Government which he himself did not entirely recognize. An avowed and convincing liberal, he has lived 14 years in the U.S., and has no direct connection with any Bolivian party. Just after the La Paz revolt he quit his job as adviser to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Last week he paced disconsolately around the orphaned Bolivian Embassy, not knowing what would happen...
Obviously disturbed by the pro-Fascist elements in the Villarroel regime, Dr. Lozada is well aware that nothing like U.S. democracy can now exist in Bolivia, where only 100,000 of some 3,500,000 people have the vote. But, within Bolivian limits, he was trying to make the new Government toe the democratic mark. One move was to cable five conditions which the regime would have to meet before he would serve as its official representative...
...must sell all Bolivian quinine to the U.S. (some had been going to Argentina). The Government decided...
...heard that the Department looked to the PIR to set matters aright; that the PIR was nothing but a Soviet tool, and therefore suspect. (The sources of this report had apparently not heard about Teheran.) Secretary Cordell Hull conferred for an hour with British Ambassador Lord Halifax, discussing the Bolivian crisis. Obvious topic would be a possible united front against Argentina and her suspected machinations...