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...Patch, an anthropologist who has spent most of the last 11 years in South America, praised U.S. aid to Bolivia, which has amounted to $200 million since 1952. He credited the funds with supporting the progressive regime and preventing chaos and territorial disintegration...
...Patch traced Bolivia's revolution to the country's war with Paraguay in 1935. During that conflict, he said, large numbers of Indians were drafted and exposed to nationalist propaganda in the army...
...hold no particular brief with the M.N.R. party or its personnel," Patch said, "but I think it is doing remarkably well." He called Bolivia the outstanding example of a country that has exceeded the goals established in the Alliance for Progress...
...contrast, Patch spoke briefly on "one of the most conservative of Latin American countries," Peru. He compared the "social mobility" of Bolivian Indians with the rigid class structure of those in the neighboring country...
Peruvian Indians, he explained, will sometimes try to pass for mestizos (persons of mixed blood) by moving to the cities and pretending not to understand their native language, Quechua. Such extreme behavior, Patch implied, is not necessary in Bolivia...