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...aggressive, Fascist-like nationalism in neighboring Argentina. The group of Army jingoes called "The Colonels," led by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron and nominally headed by President-General Pedro Ramirez, has defied the U.S., the United Nations, its Latin neighbors. Almost certainly "The Colonels" instigated the revolt of Gualberto Villarroel in Bolivia (TIME, Jan. 3., et seq.}. Probably the Argentine junta has plotted similar moves in other countries, will plot again...
Backed up by Jonas Ingram, his ships and his planes, the Uruguayan Govern ment announced its refusal to recognize the Villarroel regime. This action was a stinging slap for Argentina's Colonels. The Bolivian regime of Gualberto Villarroel, recognized only by Argentina, was firmly in the hemispheric doghouse; the U.S. was trying to line up its Latin friends in a united front to resist any further aggressions by Argentina. Then, when the stage was set, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to loose a long-advertised blast against the Argentine and Bolivian regimes...
When it came this week, it was a mild bleat against the Bolivian Government and "subversive groups hostile to the Allied cause." The Secretary refused to recognize Bolivia's Villarroel, but said nothing directly about Argentina's Colonels. For reasons of his own, President Roosevelt at the last moment had instructed Cordell Hull to erase all direct references to Argentina...
Nearly a fortnight had passed since the U.S. State Department, much criticized and currently enduring a reorganization (see p. 16), prepared a damning allegation that Argentine and Nazi forces inspired the Bolivian revolutionary regime of President-Major Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, Jan. 17). Up to this week, the State Department held its fire. The official explanation: diplomatic communications with 18 Latin American countries were unusually slow...
...Bolivia itself, José Antonio Arze, leader of the leftist PIR (Partido de Izquierda Revolucionario), was still unjailed. Far from instigating a counterrevolution when he returned to La Paz from exile in Mexico, he seemed more interested in joining the Villarroel Government if it met his conditions. They were: assurance of civil liberties; fair elections; and removal of Fascist elements from the Cabinet. Thus housecleaned, the regime might yet meet U.S. requirements. If others were plotting revolt, their movements were well concealed...