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...jail and prepared to deport him. Jailed for counter-revolutionary plotting, the tin tycoon had escaped worse punishment by promising to keep out of Bolivia and her politics. Tricky Don Mauricio had always managed to keep a potent hand in Bolivian affairs (TIME, May 8). But President Gualberto Villarroel's regime evidently felt strong enough to deal with him in one way or another...
...State Department last week smiled fondly at hitherto discredited Bolivia. Avra Warren, U.S. Ambassador to Panama, showed up in Washington after a look-see trip to Bolivia, reported favorably on the unrecognized regime of President Gualberto Villarroel. If all the other good neighbors agreed, Bolivia might soon be recognized...
Scanty reports from Bolivia last week indicated that President Villarroel and his Government of young Army officers and intellectuals were again at war with the tin companies. Hochschild again was the chief antagonist. Patiño was in Montreal. Dapper Aramayo had ducked into sanctuary in the Spanish Embassy...
...high-walled adobe jail of La Paz last week languished Mauricio Hochschild, probably the biggest mining mag nate in South America. Arrested as instigator of a plot against Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, May 8), he was lucky to be alive. The Villarroel Government had thought of shooting him, then thought again when it pondered his connections, his influence, his hold on Bolivia. Instead of killing him, his captors handled him with the special care due such a special person...
...State Department was sure that the Villarroel regime had the backing of the Nazis or of Argentina's nationalists. "Prove it!" cried the Bolivians. But the State Department persisted in nonrecognition, so far has kept all Latin nations except Argentina from accepting the Villarroel Government. Enraged by this pressure, Brazil and Uruguay have urged the State Department to give way, accept Villarroel & Co. as worthy Good Neighbors. The Bolivians protest that they have been condemned without hearing, that the U.S. has ignored their many attempts to prove their good will. Say they, quoting the Gospel of St. John...