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...Prediction. At the Rio Conference (see The Hemisphere), Morinigo's Foreign Minister, Dr. Federico Chaves, fresh from dining with Perón, .said that the elections, which Morinigo had been promising for six years, would be held immediately. He could and did predict the winner: the Colorado Party, headed by Morinigo. In this forecast, plain Paraguayans could find one consolation: if the rebels had won the war, it would only have meant swapping one dictatorship for another...
...Colonel Federico Smith, son of an English trader and a hero of the Chaco War, had taken over as Commander in Chief of the Government forces. He promised "peace at a small cost in blood and money...
...Died. Federico Laredo Bru, 71, one-time (1936-40) frontman President of Cuba for his boss and successor, Colonel Fulgencio Batista; in Havana...
...FEDERICO PÁEZ Former President of Ecuador Quito, Ecuador...
Down the swank Avenida Alvear marched two blue-uniformed police. Of all improbable places, they stopped at the home of Sr. Federico (Fritz) Mandl, Austrian-born, Argentine-naturalized munitions magnate, arrested him "by order of the President," and whisked him off to Buenos Aires' gloomy Grenadier's Barracks. Simultaneously, the Government decreed the expropriation of IMPA, Mandl's ambitious arms factory. It was the most astonishing event in Argentina's busy week...