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Bolivians had cut down from a La Paz lamppost the blood-smeared body of President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, July 29). But in Buenos Aires the Bolivian coup had loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...
...Paz the victory over tyranny was being consolidated. Students and teachers, ordinary citizens, tin barons and tin miners alike supported the efforts of the revolutionary Junta. TIME Correspondent Frank Norris traveled up from Buenos Aires with returning exiles to report the scene...
Tyranny was repaid with death. At the end of 96 hours of bloody fighting, the body of President Gualberto Villarroel last week hung from a "lamp post in La Paz's handsome Plaza Murillo. His bemedaled official photograph decorated the sheet that draped his naked body, and one of his military boots hung from under...
...public resentment ran higher than ever. The Workers' Federation called a general strike. The students broke into an arsenal. Up & down La Paz's hilly, cobblestoned streets they fought, establishing resistance points behind thick adobe walls. Sharpshooters who peppered the palace cut off Villarroel's escape. On Sunday, the revolutionists broke in. A few minutes later Villarroel, an Army major and Chaco war veteran, lay dead. His dictatorial regime, which began with a military coup in December 1943, had passed into Bolivia's troubled history...
President Truman sent a message to Savannah calling on the delegates to "breathe life" into the infant organizations. But monetary experts are not notably lively or gregarious. Spanish-speaking Negro bellboy Ben White introduced the lonely first-comer, Bolivia's Dr. Franklin Antezana Paz, to the lonely second-comer, Arturo Maschke Tornero of Chile. The two Latins warmly embraced. Latin American delegations were soon buzzing that they, as much as the war-scarred nations of Europe, expect a good slice of Bank funds for industrial development...