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Actually, there had been a complete and picturesque alteration. Stocky President Higinio Morinigo had long teetered on the fence between Argentina and the U.S. Short time ago the Frente de Guerra (War Front), a pro-Argentine group of Army officers, decided that he had perched there long enough. Led by hatchet-faced Colonel Benitez Vera, the 3,000-man garrison of Campo Grande set out for the center of Asunción, a few miles away, riding in Lend-Lease jeeps and trucks, guarded by Lend-Lease airplanes. President Morinigo met them, yielded to their demands...
Immediate result was Paraguay's recognition of Argentina's President Edelmiro Farrell (TIME, March 20). Foreign Minister Luis Argana and two other pro-U.S. Ministers in Morinigo's Cabinet were allowed to stay a short time, but last week they were fired. Morinigo became an army-bossed puppet...
...good international society by its too-friendly attitude toward Germany. Then things began to happen. Paraguay, with its strategic position and the fightingest population in South America, was courted from all sides. Big and arming Brazil gave a 100,000 conto loan ($5,170,000), gave President Morinigo a royal tour, offered freeport privileges at Santos on the open Atlantic. The U.S. has constructed a much-needed road in Paraguay, is building another, and has flooded the little country with Lend-Lease, doctors, agricultural experts and military technicians...
During the ceremony, the jefe received 35 grizzled, barefooted veterans of the war of 1870 on the Palace balcony. Their leader, perky Sergeant Major Victoriano Martinez, shouted patriotic praise at Morinigo, called him the new Supremo* who would lead Paraguay back to glory...
Once considered Hitler-minded, Higinio Morinigo became a spirited United Nations cooperator, particularly after a tour of the U.S. last June. (He saw war-production plants, visited President Roosevelt, was awarded an honorary doctor's degree at Fordham University.) His enthusiasm was rewarded: the U.S. sent him $1,000,000 worth of airplanes, trucks, jeeps and signal equipment; the U.S. is spending an estimated $11,000,000 in Paraguay, where the annual budget is $6,642,000. Brazil has lent Paraguay money for improvements, given the land-locked country use of Santos as a free port. And Argentina, which...