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...must to all men, death came last week to the youngest, most thoroughgoing dictator in the Western Hemisphere. At La Paz, loftiest capital of the Americas, sad-eyed, 35-year-old President Lieut. Colonel German Busch gave a birthday party in his home for his Japanese brother-in-law, Kovichi Seito. About 5:30 a.m.. a few minutes after the young Dictator had retired to an upper room, his guests heard a shot. They found German Busch with a bullet hole in his temple. Quick surgery failed to save him. Suicide, escape from nervous exhaustion induced by his labors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Dead Condor | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Tokyo, up popped Kovichi Seito, hitherto unheard of Japanese brother-in-law of Dictator Busch. Guessed Seito: Bolivia will soon join the Anti-Comintern Pact. Guessed Bolivian Minister Dr. Antonio Campero Arce in Rome: Bolivia is a totalitarian State, it will soon join the Pact. Kept guessing in Washington, U. S. observers guessed hardest about Bolivia's oil barter deal with Germany, gasped at a rumor that an ex-German staff officer in Bolivia swung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Guessing and Steaming | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Brother-in-law Kovichi Seito?-"His ideas are of no significance whatever." Seito, it was explained, was a Japanese exporter in Bolivia who ran away with Busch's sister, now living in Bolivia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Guessing and Steaming | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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