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...conservatives. But strong within it was the long-outlawed Apra Party (Apristas),* which appeals to the Indian masses of Peru. One probable result of Bustamante's election would be a new deal for the Indians. General Ureta's defeat would be excellent news for Chile, Colombia and Ecuador, which have long worried about the aggressive designs of the bumptious Peruvian Army...
...problems related to the real world outside. The tough material which the delegates were trying to shape into a world organization had been baked hard in history's furnace. That it yielded at all to the necessities of the future was because every nation present, from Russia to Ecuador, wanted peace and recognized a United Nations organization as an indispensable instrument for getting...
Galo Plaza Lasso, Ecuador's Ambassador to Washington, worked closely with the U.S. delegation. But he delighted correspondents by reviving that conference perennial, the striped-pants story. After reporters had smoked out a State Department memorandum recommending pin-striped pants, Ambassador Plaza announced: "I've told everyone in the U.S. that I've never worn them, and I certainly don't intend to start now." The A.P. quoted a conference...
Last year Ecuador's freely elected Constituent Assembly chose a popular New Dealing President, tall, professorial José Maria Velasco Ibarra. But when the Assembly turned to its second task, framing a new constitution, it produced a national crisis. A strong left bloc in the Assembly led by Communist Pedro Saad proposed to change Ecuador's highly feudal economy into a socialist state...
This outbreak was exactly what President Velasco had tried to avoid. A leftist, he had, nevertheless, acted with moderation. He believed that Ecuador vitally needed reforms, especially on the great estates where the Indians (the bulk of the population) lived in virtual serfdom. But he knew that too-drastic reforms might provoke conservatives to open reaction. Last week the Assembly was still trying to agree on a constitution. But most Ecuadorians wished that it, too, would quietly go home, and leave to President Velasco the ticklish job of cleaning up Ecuador's economic system...