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...February (TIME, March 2). Last week the losing Bolivian officers, led by Lieut. Colonel German Busch, seized the Bolivian Government in La Paz without firing a shot, kicked out the Army stooge they had put in six months before the War ended, pacific, beet-nosed President José Luis Tejada Sorzana...
...from wishing to interfere, Bolivia's big-nosed, phlegmatic President José Luis Tejada Sorzano began behaving as if peace were as good as sealed, announced a "postwar reconstruction program'' to be featured by borrowing, if possible, $25,000,000. This will be spent tapping Bolivia's two-mile-high Lake Titicaca and using the water thus obtained to drive turbines which will whirl dynamos to supply current for the grandiose project of "electrifying all our railroads." Surplus water, according to the President, will be used for vast irrigation projects. The work is to be done by enigmatic Mauricio Hochschild, head...
...opposes the war; the Genuine Republican Party holds the countrymen of the hot lowlands and wants war to the finish. Genuine Republicans made Invalid Daniel Salamanca President while the Liberal bosses were electing a man of their own vice president, a beet-nosed banker named José Luis Tejada Sorzano. Last month another presidential election was approaching. President Salamanca, who had already lost one son in the War, wanted to elect a Genuine Republican successor and keep the war going. He was faced with the worst kind of campaign material: news of the great Paraguayan victories on the northern front...
Paraguay's victory shattered Bolivia's politics. Sick with dismay, President Salamanca could think only of firing his commander-in-chief. He set out for the Chaco front to do so but his intentions went ahead of him. Vice President Tejada had been on the wires. When Salamanca arrived, the army officers politely asked for and got his resignation. Back in La Paz Tejada had already made himself President, claiming that Salamanca had deserted. There was no doubt that Bolivia's new President Tejada was in favor of "an honorable peace...
Late despatches asserted that no explanation of these acts had been made public by the Calles Government. Meanwhile Mexican soldiers seized "all movable or immovable property owned by priests either openly or in the names of other individuals." Señor Tejada, Secretary of the Interior, refused to be interviewed by correspondents. Said he: "We are not going to talk any more but are going...