PARAGUAY: Zubizarreta Rampant

The neat arrangement by which Paraguayans were to have been offered next September a chance to vote for just one presidential candidate, Liberal Dr. Geronimo Zubizarreta, spectacularly blew sky high last week. The military clique which largely runs Paraguay from behind the scenes, but finds it advisable to have a civilian President for front man, recently picked Dr. Zubizarreta to be sole candidate. By way of popular buildup, it sent him to the Chaco Peace Conference in Buenos Aires as chief Paraguayan delegate. Last week Dr. Zubizarreta quarreled with his delegation, left...

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