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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...
Just what the plot was General Peñaranda did not care to say, but it seemed a good bet that it had something to do with a man who was supposed to be 6,000 miles away, a fire-eating, 36-year-old aviator, Major Elias Belmonte, Bolivia's Air Attaché in Berlin...
...Buenos Aires last week appeared a delegation from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, chief city of Argentina's cotton belt. To a Government already well-nigh frantic over the country's economic troubles the delegation put one more problem. Rains had ruined half the cotton crop, last hope of that curiously international, politically chaotic, economically devastated region known as the Argentine Chaco...
Misery in the Jungle. Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, 25 years ago a railway car on a Chaco siding, is today a city of 25,000 souls. Typical of the region is its population: 90% foreign-born, 80% Slavic. Its mayor, blond, blue-eyed, Jewish José Pavlotzky, was until recently one of the most popular characters in the Chaco...
TUMBLEWEEDS-Marta Roberts-Putnam ($2.50). This sympathetic study of simple, pious, maternal Concha Garcia subjects her strong spirit to much woe and a strange, alien world of Norteamericanos. By page two the reader suspects that Peón Pedro Garcia will lose his California section-gang job. But by chapter two the reader finds that there is little Steinbeck in this chronicle of adversity: Faith in the Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves...