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...Played host, as Chief Good Neighbor, at a State banquet for overnight guest General Higinio Morinigo, President of Paraguay...
Even Germany has never seen an election with such a comic-opera touch. Nazi-copying Dictator-President Higinio Morinigo reluctantly yielded to a combination of forces and decided to go through the motions of an election for the presidential term of 1943-48. He set up a candidate-himself-and decreed an electoral period from Jan. 16 to Feb. 14. He promised that the elections would not fall into the errors of the so-called "free-election system." Just to make sure, he decreed "[It is] strictly forbidden to agitate public opinion or divide the citizens with party appeals...
President Higinio Morinigo, brought over by promises to keep him in office after the expiration of his legal term, aided the military clique in its plan to dismiss pro-Allied Foreign Minister Luis Argana and reorient Paraguayan policy toward neutral Buenos Aires rather than toward belligerent Rio. The Morinigo Government stopped work on the new $1,000,000 airport under construction near Asunción. The protests of bearded U.S. Ambassador Wesly Frost produced no results and U.S. airport engineers packed to go home...
Paraguay under General Higinio Morinigo's authoritarian Government was, beyond a formal affirmation of solidarity, strangely silent. Like Bolivia. Paraguay is completely hemmed in by neighbor nations. It is in close proximity to centers of German population in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina...
Paraguay's population is 60% to 70% illegitimate. The women "roll big black cigars on their thighs, and puff them stolidly," but a European woman may be stoned if she wears slacks. President General Don Higinio Morinigo, a young man whose "black hair starts an inch above his brows," has "pronounced totalitarian sympathies," but has taken "fairly strong action against Fifth Columnism...