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...being fought in the Western Hemisphere. Two of this battle's most serious skirmishes in Latin America went against the Nazis. The flare-up between Peru and Ecuador appeared to be under control, as both sides announced that they were willing to cease hostilities and arbitrate. The Bolivian Government mopped up the busted fragments of the coup planned by Naziphile Major Elias Belmonte (TIME, July...
...That the Bolivian coup had been planned by the Nazis, none doubted. While Berlin grumbled unconvincingly about "U.S. aggression," Bolivia's President, General Enrique Peňaranda, released a letter to the newspapers. It had been mailed on June 9 in Berlin by Major Belmonte, Bolivian Air Attache in Germany, to the German Minister at La Paz, Ernst Wendler. According to President Peňaranda, it had been intercepted by "the intelligence service of a foreign power fighting against Germany" and turned over...
...these troubled waters the Nazis have fished lovingly. Well-heeled and well-organized, Germans in Bolivia have plugged their cause openly, have dominated radio stations and many newspapers. Into the Nazi camp they have tried to lure many Bolivian bigwigs...
Bolivia lives mainly on tin exports, and when the U.S.'s far-eastern supply was threatened, Bolivians assumed the U.S. would want their total production. That could be almost enough for U.S. needs provided the run-down Bolivian mines were fixed up with new equipment, including a railroad connecting Bolivia's interior with Brazil (and with tidewater...
...Patiño's companies are interlocked with the British-Dutch cartel, and he controls a smelter in Liverpool. His ore has always been smelted there, crossing the Atlantic twice before it gets to the U.S. After prolonged negotiations, Jesse Jones contracted with a Dutch firm to smelt Bolivian ore in Texas-with a Dutch East Indian ore admixture, which keeps U.S. tin technology tied to the Far East. To feed the Texas smelter he secured less than half of Bolivia's production-a mere 18,000 tons a year. Patiño's ore still goes...