BLOODLESS COUP

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 9

BLOODLESS COUP

Bolivian Government Falls AFTERMATH OF WAR Change Effected With Little Disorder By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received May .18, 9.30 p.m.) Buenos Aires, May 17. According to reports from La Paz the Government of Bolivia fell to-day after a bloodless coup d'etat by a junta composed of army officers and civilian Socialists. Unrest among the people is an aftermath of the war with Paraguay, whose war Government was likewise recently overthrown. Whereas the new Paraguayan Government is Fascist, the new regime formed at La Paz to-day appears to be of Leftist inclination. The coup was effected with a minimum of disorder. The junta appeared at tlie palace and demanded the resignation of the President, Senor Luis Tejada Sorzano, which request was immediately complied with. Sorzano himself acquired power through a putsch in 1934. , A Buenos Aires cable dated March 11 stated that news of the creation of the first Fascist regime in the Western Hemisphere had conic with the announcement from Paraguay that the provisional Government had decreed a totalitarian State, declared the revolutionary party and the State inseparable, suspended all political activities for one year and put all industries under the Minister for the Interior. The decree stressed the analogy to certain European countries. “The advent of a liberating revolution has created changes of great magnitude which will require historical solution and which will show the revolution involved the same social transformation as those of contemporary European totalitarian States, in the sense that the liberating revolution and the State arc now the one and identical thing,” the decree states.