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Avocado Politics. Apra was not part of the government it fought so ferociously to uphold. With more seats in Congress than any other party, it was content to hold power without office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
...Spruille Braden, in his big person and his big ideals, embodied the great paradox confronting the U.S. in Latin America. The U.S. officially, and Braden personally, propose to uphold the U.S. idea of liberty in all the Western Hemisphere. Yet the U.S., as the greatest of western nations, and Braden as its servant, must recognize that sovereignty-especially sovereignty below the Rio Grande-is sometimes more precious than liberty...
...elections in all of Europe's liberated countries and promised diplomatic recognition to governments set up through such elections. If Bulgaria does not comply, he said, the U.S. would refuse recognition. In effect, since Bulgaria is a Russian satellite, he was telling another of the Big Three to uphold its end of the Yalta-Potsdam bargain...
...Democracy is on trial as it never was before, and in this island we must uphold it as we did in the dark days of 1940 and 1941, with all our hearts and all our vigilance and with all our untiring and inexhaustible strength...
...Belgians to uphold Parliament's decree of banishment in a national referendum. The issue would not be the monarchy, but Leopold. Three years hence, Leopold's son Prince Baudouin, 15, if he grew up of a sufficiently royal figure to fit the battered royal throne, would presumably become King of the Belgians...