Word: pir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally, it must take members of the PIR (Partido de Izquierda Revolucionario) into the new government...
...PIR is the working-class party of Bolivia, hated, feared and persecuted by the country's three great tin companies. It is called Communistic (any workers' party would be called Communistic in Bolivia). It has Communist members; it also has a clear anti-Fascist and pro-United Nations record. Its head is short, dark José Antonio Arze, once teacher at Williams College in the U.S., who has been living in exile in Mexico City. First he cabled Secretary Cordell Hull and Vice President Henry Wallace suggesting they withhold recognition until certain conditions were met by the Villarroel...
...PIR had no visible Army support for a counterrevolution, although an attempt at one was possible. Other attempts might be inspired by ex-President David Toro, reportedly in Washington, or by deposed President Peñaranda, who issued a die-hard statement from Tacna, Peru...
Last summer, the British put the Pir in stir and declared war on his Hurs. Planes, tanks, cannon and parachutists invaded the sands, jungles and marshes of Sind. The Hurs had hatchets and blunderbusses. Some of them escaped by lying under water and breathing through straws, but the British wiped out most of the ringleaders and fanatics, battered down the walls of Golden...
Last week, after a 26-day court martial, the piratical Pir of Pagaro was shot for "abetting, conspiring and preparing to wage war against the King-Emperor...