Irritating Inequality

The bloody, exhausting, three-year Gran Chaco War ended eleven months ago. The victorious Paraguayan officers led by War Hero Colonel Rafael Franco seized the Paraguayan Government last February (TIME, March 2). Last week the losing Bolivian officers, led by Lieut. Colonel German Busch, seized the Bolivian Government in La Paz without firing a shot, kicked out the Army stooge they had put in six months before the War ended, pacific, beet-nosed President Jose Luis Tejada Sorzana.

The Bolivian officers, with Bolivia's three Socialist parties, picked for President War Hero Colonel David Toro who was still in the Gran Chaco with his Bolivian garrison. Manifestoed Lieut. Colonel Busch: "The Chaco campaign brought to light the shakiness of the Bolivian State. . . . Most of the humble were required to give their services and sacrifices on the altar of the Fatherland while others-powerful, but very few in number-concentrated in their hands the great fortunes formed by exploiting the natural resources of the country. Nothing in this irritating condition of inequality, however, has nullified the sacrifice of thousands of men who remained under arms in the Chaco. . ."

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