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Land-locked Bolivia last week followed impatient Brazil into the war. The Bolivian Congress must still ratify a state-of-war decree issued by President Enrique Peñaranda, but to all effects Bolivia became the second South American country at war with the Axis...
...Thien Pe is a young Burmese author who had no love for the British when they controlled his country, less for the Japs after they took Burma from the British. He remained in Burma for two months after its conquest by Japan, then escaped via India to Chungking. There he wrote a book, What Happened in Burma, and it was published last week in India...
...essence of his conclusions: Burma cannot be rewon by arms alone; the Burmese people must first be won, and they can only be won if British political strategy in the Far East is improved. Author Thien Pe addressed himself to the British and to Burma, but his premise applied as well to the U.S. and to all of Asia...
...Peñaranda's Problems. Ernesto Galarza, Chief of the Pan American Union's Labor and Social Information Division, accused the U.S. Government of likewise urging Bolivia to stand pat on present wage levels. His charge: U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had discussed the new labor code with President Peñaranda "for the obvious purpose of delaying the application of the wage provisions. . . . Clearly his purpose was to head off a rise in the cost of tin to the U.S. . . . The American Government is placing itself in the position of attempting to aid in the denial...
...difficult and ticklish situation for President Peñaranda. Tin is Bolivia's most important export, and Patino's tin constitutes almost half of the local production. It was also a difficult situation for the United Nations, which need all of Bolivia's tin for war purposes. Financially Bolivia was in a bad way, with prices spiraling despite credits from the U.S. President Peñaranda faced a fundamental problem in human and economic relations which the necessities of war no longer permitted to be postponed...