Word: morinigo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days at Asuncion barefooted Indians stared at the gold-braided visitors, watched their little army goose-step, listened to the music that escaped from the ballroom, heard the shuffle of dancers, the clink of sabers. They had come to see swarthy, stolid Higinio Morinigo inaugurated Dictator-President (salary $236 a month) of their pictorial, backward Para guay...
Strong-man Morinigo, who grabbed authority Sept. 7, 1940, after the airplane-crash death of President Jose Felix Estigarribia, made his job "legal" last February in an election in which he was the only candidate. Now there were three grand balls, many banquets and luncheons, parades and a sports show to assure the people that their choice was not unduly limited...
...green, blue and gold-bordered reception salon of the Government Palace, the Archbishop of Paraguay administered the oath of office in the presence of 150 uniformed and full-dressed witnesses. President Morinigo, in a red & blue uniform with the red, white & blue band of office across his breast, read a speech which established continental solidarity, internal totalism and progress as the program of his regime. He led the procession (thoroughly guarded) to the Cathedral for Mass, returned to the Palace for a popular reception...
...Played host, as Chief Good Neighbor, at a State banquet for overnight guest General Higinio Morinigo, President of Paraguay...
Even Germany has never seen an election with such a comic-opera touch. Nazi-copying Dictator-President Higinio Morinigo reluctantly yielded to a combination of forces and decided to go through the motions of an election for the presidential term of 1943-48. He set up a candidate-himself-and decreed an electoral period from Jan. 16 to Feb. 14. He promised that the elections would not fall into the errors of the so-called "free-election system." Just to make sure, he decreed "[It is] strictly forbidden to agitate public opinion or divide the citizens with party appeals...