Word: bolivia
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...Symington fired employees who had become entangled in the influence web, and opened loan files to public scrutiny. When he decided that the world's tin producers were gouging the U.S., he slashed the price the RFC would pay for tin. This brought cries of anguish from Bolivia, and got Symington into an argument with the State Department. Now that Symington is leaving, the Bolivians hope to win the argument (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...resulting deadlock, the U.S. had to dip into its strategic stockpile, ration tin to industry. Columnist David Lawrence charged Bolivia, in collusion with British-Southeast Asia interests, with "the biggest holdup in the whole field of raw materials," and asserted that its tin owners, "now getting a 100% return on their invested capital, expect even more if the new phases of the blackmail should be successful...
...from Valley Forge. Through sheer necessity, he became a brilliant guerrilla campaigner, making up in mobility and surprise what he lacked in numbers. Before he was through, he and his followers had routed the Spaniards from Panama to Peru, laid the foundation of other free republics in Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador...
...individualist, Florman had no flair or liking for conventional striped-pants diplomacy. He thought he could find his way through Bolivia's intricate political affairs better than the seasoned career men on his staff. Taking charge of embassy press relations, he wrote signed articles for the Bolivian papers explaining events in his own way ("Bolivian silver . . . helped create the first middle class in the world"). He had freely-expressed opinions on everything. But most Bolivians appreciated what the newspaper La Razon called "the friendly attitude with which [Florman] has tried to foster relations between the two peoples...
...Yanqui inventor claimed credit for having 1) encouraged a 1950 petroleum law allowing foreign oil companies to resume prospecting in Bolivia, 2) arranged for the U.S. to buy Bolivia's strategic tungsten, 3) promoted resumption of payment on $145 million worth of defaulted Bolivian bonds. However others felt, Bolivians thought kindly of the ambassador. Before Florman left last week, they gave him the Order of the Andean Condor, their highest decoration...