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...objects recovered by the French from the Nazis after the war, about 45,000 were immediately returned to their rightful owners, 13,000 of very little value were auctioned off and the 2,000 remaining pieces were put into French museums, each bearing the label "MNR", which indicates the national retrieval effort. The French were under a moral obligation to find and to return recovered art to victims and their heirs after the war, and they...
...travelled with a journalist and photographer to Normandy to visit one of the museums with five "MNR" artworks and to interview the museum's curator. This museum's pride and joy was an unclaimed Monet that had been stolen from France by the Germans, and it also had a Delacroix that had been recovered from the Nazis. But to the curator's knowledge, there had never been a claim on any of these five works despite their having been displayed since the early...
...year 1952 is a watershed in Bolivian history, perhaps the first time the peasants in the Bolivian countryside were affected on a large scale by political activity since the days when Pizarro came searching for gold some four centuries earlier. The Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario (MNR), an essentially middle class party engineered a revolution in 1952 that transformed Bolivian society by mobilizing support among the nation's poor...
...MNR armed the mineworkers, traditionally the most leftist group in Bolivia, with rifles and organized them into local militia units. And, correctly assessing the potential of the dormant masses in the countryside, MNR representatives moved into the towns and villages around La Paz and Cochabamba to awake the peasants to an awareness of the injustices they had suffered for so long. Were the peasants to continue to work as slaves, the MNR asked, to put meat on the tables of the hacendados, the large estate owners, while they themselves had to eat potatoes...
...appointed day in April, 1952, truckload after truckload of gun-toting peasants, many of whom had never traveled more than ten miles from their native communities, were driven to La Paz, where they marched through the streets chanting the slogans of the MNR and, within three days, had assured the success of the Revolution...