BOLIVIAN COUP
Concern In United States And Britain AXIS INFLUENCE DETECTED N.Z.P.A. and British Wireless Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 22. Questioned about the United States attitude to the new Bolivian regime, the United States Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, indicated concern that possible outside influences unfriendly to the United Nations mignt rava had a part in the coup d'etat. Fe reminded the public that the Western Hemisphere was under a sinister, subversive attack from the Axis assisted by elements within the hemisphere itself. . .... Similar concern is evident in London. Though the full implications of the coup are still uncertain, The Times quotes a report that Argentina favours the introduction of a regime patterned on her own into a country whose frontier marches with hers. "The new Bolivian Government has Fascist tendencies without popular sympathies," said the ex-president, Penaranda, who has arrived in Arica, Chile. He denied that he resigned, adding that the revolutionaries presented an already drafted resignation, but he did not sign it.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 304, 23 December 1943, Page 5
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