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...harassed by Peru's wealthy oligarchy and archconservative military that he spent at least 30 of the 36 years in prison, in asylum or out of the country. Last week -protected by APRA's current alliance with the enlightened conservatism of Peru's President Manuel Prado-Haya de la Torre, now 66, came home to Lima to take command of his party again...
...Haya explained to 80,000 party faithful how he saw APRA in the world of 1961. The party, he said, still stands for its historic goals-land reform, free education, cooperatives and the gradual nationalization of natural resources. Haya had no apologies to make for his alliance with President Prado. Such cooperation between left and right is necessary, he said, "to defend the new democracy against its many enemies...
Living Underground. The next 13 years Haya spent in prison or underground. In 1945, then (and now) President Manuel Prado, a banker, legalized APRA, but under a new name. Out of hiding, Haya spoke before 175,000: "We aspire to create an authentic social justice, not one that comes from Moscow." Yet once again, when an APRA-hatmg newspaper editor was murdered, the aristocracy threw out the coalition regime that APRA had helped elect (but in which it did not have a commanding voice) and forced the party back underground. Haya spent five years as a refugee in the Colombian...
Four years ago the still-outlawed Apristas made another deal with Banker Prado, and one that looked as if it would stick. In return for election support, Prado legalized the party. In another display of fair-mindedness, Prado appointed the loudest critic of his inflationary policies, Newspaper Publisher Pedro Beltrán, as his Premier. The two have since given Peru constitutional government and, through tightfisted austerity, have braked inflation...
...those in the big museums: the best of the private collections seem "irretrievably destined to emigrate to the U.S.. if not in this generation then during the next." The great museums of Europe themselves are already developing serious shortcomings in the thoroughness and quality of their collections. The Prado may still be the "indispensable museum" for Spanish art of the 16th through 18th centuries, says Gaya-Nuňo, but for Spanish Gothic art, one must go to America...