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...regime of President Gaulberto Villarroel, a 35-year-old Army major, had been recognized only by Argentina. The Inter-American Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, had agreed that its member nations should consult before taking action; they were still consulting last week. Argentina's totalitarian Government, ignored by the Committee and widely suspected of instigating the revolt (a Chilean Communist paper, El Siglo, said that Dictator-Colonel Juan Domingo Péron had boasted of doing so), had hesitated 14 days...
Obviously disturbed by the pro-Fascist elements in the Villarroel regime, Dr. Lozada is well aware that nothing like U.S. democracy can now exist in Bolivia, where only 100,000 of some 3,500,000 people have the vote. But, within Bolivian limits, he was trying to make the new Government toe the democratic mark. One move was to cable five conditions which the regime would have to meet before he would serve as its official representative...