Word: paz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are potential base sites for joint U.S. -Mexican use: La Paz, offering a good, sheltered bay on the Gulf of California, with Magdalena similarly situated on the Pacific. Potentialities farther south are even more significant: The port of Salina Cruz possesses the only coastal dry dock from San Francisco to Panama, also has a fueling station. The fine harbor at Acapulco has a repair base, Guaymas a repair yard. Manzanillo is another fueling station...
...Nazis, none doubted. While Berlin grumbled unconvincingly about "U.S. aggression," Bolivia's President, General Enrique Peňaranda, released a letter to the newspapers. It had been mailed on June 9 in Berlin by Major Belmonte, Bolivian Air Attache in Germany, to the German Minister at La Paz, Ernst Wendler. According to President Peňaranda, it had been intercepted by "the intelligence service of a foreign power fighting against Germany" and turned over...
From two miles up in the Andes last weekend came word of a Putsch that failed. In La Paz, Bolivia's President General Enrique Peñaranda suddenly announced that his country was in a state of siege after the discovery of plans for a Nazi-led revolution...
Trained, like most of Bolivia's officers, by Germans, Belmonte admired what he saw in Germany. Since then, according to open rumors in La Paz, he has spent much of his time writing glowing letters about the Nazi system, getting himself talked about as a logical Führer for Bolivia...
...though he had made good use of his opportunity. Whether the Nazi plot was led by Belmonte or others, the President had moved fast and drastically. His score to date: four newspapers shuttered, German Minister Ernst Wendler given his walking papers, an unspecified number of Bolivians arrested, including Victor Paz Estenssoro, who until five weeks ago was Finance Minister in his Cabinet...