For three days at Asuncion barefooted Indians stared at the gold-braided visitors, watched their little army goose-step, listened to the music that escaped from the ballroom, heard the shuffle of dancers, the clink of sabers. They had come to see swarthy, stolid Higinio Morinigo inaugurated Dictator-President (salary $236 a month) of their pictorial, backward Para guay.
Up the Parana River from rich Argentina came two mine layers and a delegation of nine officials led by Rear Admiral Eleazar Videla. Out of the sky from Bolivia came nine planeloads of officials; from Brazil...
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