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...Argentine Buenos Aires, Italian Ambassadorial pressure had sufficed to get Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator banned. In Paraguayan Asunción, where diplomacy failed, Axis sympathizers took direct action. Five masked hijackers stuck up a film messenger, made off with reels intended for the premiere. Disgusted but unimpressed by these wild-&-woolly shenanigans, United Artists flew another print from Peru...
Before the 90 days were up, Acting President Ramon S. Castillo decided that the guests at the Hotel de Inmigrantes would have to leave. By this time they all had Paraguayan visas, but they were not permitted even to walk across the city to the river boat for Paraguay. Instead they were bundled aboard another of the "whited sepulchers,'' the Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn). Before the ship sailed one of the refugees killed himself...
...dirty-grey-bearded Paraguayan with sly eyes and a derby hat said last week that if his Government would help instead of badgering him, he would annihilate tuberculosis which is a scourge of Paraguay...
Before President Vargas and War Minister Dutra, in apparent harmony, paraded Brazilian soldiers, 20,000 strong, Argentine naval cadets and Paraguayan military cadets. Beside the President and his War Minister stood Argentina's War Minister Juan N. Tonazzi, grim-faced by nature and not by virtue of the fact that Argentina and Brazil are somewhat jealous of each other's influence in Paraguay. With a harmonious rattle, U.S. -made light tanks and German-made anti-aircraft guns rolled down the Praça da Republica. Even U.S.-ousted Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, who turned...
...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...