Word: haya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprawling Casa del Pueblo, Apra headquarters in Lima, baggy, beaming Apra Chief Victor Raul Haya de la Torre faced his weekly "leaders' class." This time the men on the hard benches in the whitewashed, barnlike hall got no lesson on public speaking or Peruvian finance...
...great mathematician had been interested in Haya's theory of relativity in history.* He had agreed enthusiastically with Haya that only continental American unity can save the U.N., and had said that unity must be achieved...
...uniformed granaderos de San Martin and some of South America's finest rhetoric. He was met by Argentine commercial technicians. Molinari and his grenadiers had already splashed grandiloquently through the halls and plazas of most of Latin America. Peruvians were impressed. Said Apra Chief Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre: "We need their wheat and meat." Perón has already promised Chile $175,000,000 to tie her to Argentina in bonds of trade. Bolivia's new Government got another $62,500,000. Peru might be due for the next lift...
Since 1945 La Prensa had stood on the editorial opinion that fanatics who had spent 16 years in illegal activity would never be fit to govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...
What Apra Wants. In some ways he was still the old Haya. Throughout his tour he still stuck up for continental unity. "What I am fighting about," he cried, "is that in this hemisphere there is a United States of the north and disunited states of the south. Small and big can never live together. We must make ourselves big by uniting. We Apristas are against customs barriers and want political and economic cooperation among all Latin American countries...