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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...
...Paraguay's young Dictator-President-General Higinio Morinigo, who has often been rumored flirting with pro-German elements in Brazil, announced flatly that Paraguay would fulfill her obligations in hemisphere defense. The question of air bases was being studied, said he. Truth was that the U.S. had already selected two air bases in Paraguay, as well as eleven in Brazil, that a formula for U.S. assistance in the defense of both those countries had already been worked...
...Paraguay President Higinio Morinigo has been consolidating his power by exiling opposition leaders or sending them to a steaming island in the Paraguay River. Dictator Morinigo cares nothing for constitutional methods of continuismo ; he suspended the Constitution when he seized power last September. But his opposition is also lawless. One exiled Paraguayan is onetime Dictator Rafael Franco, who has been supporting himself manufacturing soap in a small apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay. Last week, through the censor ship that envelops remote Asunción, came reports of a Franquista revolt. Colonel Franco's brother Laconich hopped a plane from Montevideo...