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...Paraguay's young Dictator-President-General Higinio Morinigo, who has often been rumored flirting with pro-German elements in Brazil, announced flatly that Paraguay would fulfill her obligations in hemisphere defense. The question of air bases was being studied, said he. Truth was that the U.S. had already selected two air bases in Paraguay, as well as eleven in Brazil, that a formula for U.S. assistance in the defense of both those countries had already been worked...
...Paraguay President Higinio Morinigo has been consolidating his power by exiling opposition leaders or sending them to a steaming island in the Paraguay River. Dictator Morinigo cares nothing for constitutional methods of continuismo ; he suspended the Constitution when he seized power last September. But his opposition is also lawless. One exiled Paraguayan is onetime Dictator Rafael Franco, who has been supporting himself manufacturing soap in a small apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay. Last week, through the censor ship that envelops remote Asunción, came reports of a Franquista revolt. Colonel Franco's brother Laconich hopped a plane from Montevideo...
...managed to play ball with recent Latin American dictators. It is more than friendly to Brazil's Dictator Getulio Vargas. It is not particularly concerned about Paraguay, where President Higinio Morinigo has declared himself dictator. But Paraguay is far away and Brazil is a pretty good clip, while the Republic of Panama, less than half as far, sits astride the most strategic waterway in the world...