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...army rules Bolivia," and until recently Dictator Hernando Siles ruled the army through his stiff-necked, unpopular, efficient General Hans Kundt, German Major-General lent to Bolivia by the Kaiser in 1910, naturalized Bolivian...
...other large foreign firms to underwrite jointly a $5,000,000 loan. He has had trouble ever since. Month ago he resigned as President, appointed a subservient Cabinet to rule in his place. He appeared to think that by this subterfuge he had evaded the constitutional provision that a Bolivian President may not be elected to succeed himself though he may seek election to succeed his successor...
...Bolivian air force joined the revolution and the fortunes of Siles & Kundt were doomed. By week's end peace was restored and a military government under a General Carlos Blanco Galindo (the army still rules Bolivia) was in power. Ex-President Siles and family were enroute to the Chilean border under escort. General Kundt hid in shelter of the German Legation...
When, 28 years ago, Simon I. Patiño was a bill collector for a Bolivian general store, he accepted from a debtor certain mountain lands instead of $250. The store discharged him after making him pay $250 in cash. Impoverished, he went to see the land, dug, discovered tin. Today he heads the Patiño Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, is one of the world's richest men, with a personal income exceeding that of the Bolivian Government. Although as Ambassador to France Patiño divides his time between Paris and his Biarritz castle, he is still...
...when War was declared, received a lieutenant's commission in the naval air forces. Sent overseas, he organized naval air stations in England, France, Italy, won from the Italian government the Brevetto Superiore. After the War came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial and business side of mining rather than the engineering, and finance did not so much appeal to him. When Chile Copper Co. was sold to Anaconda, he came back to the U. S., built himself his fine Norman manor on Long Island...