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Catholic, democratic Colombia last week rocked with a Guy Fawkes scandal. Almost on the eve of Congressional elections, police surrounded the impressive colonial Cathedral of Bogota. Before a party of Church and Government officials who sped to the scene, they respectfully uncovered 800 bombs in the organ loft...
Promptly, 42 suspects were seized. Three priests among them were released, but the police held fast to several retired military officers, two Cathedral sacristans, some lay brothers. All belonged to Colombia's small clerical fascist clique which drew the country's attention last summer when liberal President Alfonso Lopez was kidnapped...
...newspaper, El Siglo, property of Colombia's most choleric orator, Laureano Gómez (who went into self-imposed exile following the Presidential abduction last summer), roared that "arrests of clergymen violated the Concordat with the Vatican." But the rest of the press saved its condemnation for the plotters...
...philosophical Foreign Minister took a dozen other foreign ministers to the Hipódromo de las Américas, Mexico's horse track backed by U.S. expatriate "Sell 'em" Ben Smith and President Manuel Avila Camacho's late brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Result: Host Padilla, Colombia's Foreign Minister Alberto Lleras Camargo, Venezuela's Carraciolo Parra-Perez each lost 50 pesos on a long shot. Nicaragua's Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa won 500 pesos ($103) on two races...
...Colombia's Lleras introduced the week's hottest resolution. Backed in principle by the U.S., it would bind all the signers to defend the boundaries and political independence of any American republic attacked from any quarter, within or without the Western Hemisphere. Tacit object: to create a combination in case Argentina should turn aggressor against Chile...