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...finally recognized Bolivia last week, after six months of niggling delay. The revolutionary Government of President Gualberto Villarroel had long since done all that the State Department had requested. It had rounded up and deported some 80 high-placed Axis agents, had sent German and Jap diplomats home, had purged the Government of Axis sympathizers, had upped the export of tin and tungsten...
...State Department had been deeply concerned about the spreading epidemic of revolts in South America. Too many friendly (if bad) governments were being replaced by military cliques that looked to Argentine for leadership. But the delay in recognizing Gualberto Villarroel's military clique long after it had turned its back on Argentine accomplished nothing but a notable further drain on the sinking reservoir of good will south of the Rio Grande...
...jail and prepared to deport him. Jailed for counter-revolutionary plotting, the tin tycoon had escaped worse punishment by promising to keep out of Bolivia and her politics. Tricky Don Mauricio had always managed to keep a potent hand in Bolivian affairs (TIME, May 8). But President Gualberto Villarroel's regime evidently felt strong enough to deal with him in one way or another...
...State Department last week smiled fondly at hitherto discredited Bolivia. Avra Warren, U.S. Ambassador to Panama, showed up in Washington after a look-see trip to Bolivia, reported favorably on the unrecognized regime of President Gualberto Villarroel. If all the other good neighbors agreed, Bolivia might soon be recognized...
...high-walled adobe jail of La Paz last week languished Mauricio Hochschild, probably the biggest mining mag nate in South America. Arrested as instigator of a plot against Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, May 8), he was lucky to be alive. The Villarroel Government had thought of shooting him, then thought again when it pondered his connections, his influence, his hold on Bolivia. Instead of killing him, his captors handled him with the special care due such a special person...