Evening star. [volume], May 17, 1951, Page A-6, Image 6

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Bolivian Junta Chief
May Allow Election
Of President in June
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LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 17.—Gen.
Hugo Ballivian, head of the mili
tary junta which took control of
tin-rich Bolivia in a bloodless coup
yesterday, said last night he may
call new presidential elections next
montk.
Th/B appeared to be a new step
in flocking from the presidency
exiled Victor Paz Estenssoro, lead
er of the National Revolutionary
PJrty (MNR), who ran far ahead
id the May 6 presidential election
tut failed to obtain the necessary
majority.
Meanwhile, Gen. Ballivian prom
ised that Bolivia would continue
to maintain friendly relations with
her Western Hemisphere neighbors
and would adhere to the “treaties
and conventions to which the na
tion is pledged.”
Government of this turbulent
little nation was handed over to
the junta of three generals and
seven colonels yesterday by Presi
dent Mamerto Urriolagoitia. The
President resigned and took a
plane to Arica, Chile.
Police officials charged Mr. Paz
Estenssoro’s Socialistic Party,
wmcn araws ns main wsuengui
from the country’s tin miners, had
joined the outlawed Communists
in a “liberation front” which had
some Nazi-like features.
In Buenos Aires Mr. Paz Es
tenssoro asserted the seizure of
power was a “deal” to cheat him
of the presidency. With no can
didate winning a majority, the
government-dominated Congress,
under the constitution. Is sched
uled to elect the President from
the three top men in the six-man
race.
The MNR leader has been liv
ing in exile in Argentina since
the 1946 Bolivian revolution. Al
most complete returns from the
May 6 election gave him 54,741
votes, or 41 per cent of the total.
Mr. Urriolagoitia said in Arica
last night that he had voluntarily
given up his office to prevent his
country from falling under the
yoke of “Nazi Fascism and Com
munism.” «t
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address delivered by President
Truman today at the National
Conference on Citizenship:
I am very glad to join in wel
coming this conference to Wash
ington. I am strongly in favor
of what you are doing here to help
the people of this country become
better citizens.
The job of being an American
citizen keeps growing more dif
ficult and more important, every
day. In some countries, the im
portant decisions are made by the
rulers, and the citizens do as they
are told. In our country, the citi
zens make the basic decisions, and
the officials oi the Government do
as the people tell them.
As the problems before our coun
try become more complicated and
more dangerous, our citizens must
give greater attention to their job
of making the basic decisions.
There is less margin for error than
there used to be. Wrong decisions
in this day and age may wreck the i
country, once and for all.
There is a great deal of serious;
business before the Government!
of this country. This business
concerns our national defense and
our national survival. Important!
decisions have to be made by the
Congress and the President, and;
made soon These decisions ought1
to be above politics, because the
welfare of the country depends on
them.
Sense of Urgency.
I hope that, when you leave
this conference, you will take
home with you an understanding
of the major problems we face,
and a sense if urgency about the
decisions your Government has to
make. If this understanding can
be spread among all the citizens
groups you represent, I believe
these decisions will be made
promtly and made right.
If the citizens know the facts,
and let their elected representa
tives know that they want the
national interest put above every
political interest and every special
interest, then there won’t be any
question about keeping our Nation
strong and secure. That is one
of the most important things this
conference can do.
I would like to outline for you
a few of the major problems we
have to face.
There is a lot of discussion
nowadays about military strategy.
Thnt. is nil ricrht Military
strategy is important and every-,
body ought to be concerned about'
it.
But there are a lot of other
problems that are equally im
portant. We have the hard prob
lems of defense production, taxes
and stabilization,. for example.
Unless we face those problems, we
won't be able to have any military
strategy at all.
Should Stand Together.
Our country faces the danger
of war from an aggressive and im
perialistic foreign power. Meet
ing this danger is all-important.
We should all stand together.
I think that some people fail
to realize that this threat is very
real. They think there is still;
time to play politics.
That is a terribly dangerous
attitude. We must all get to
gether behind a program adequate
to meet the perils we face. We
must get together now—without
waiting—without playing politics.
Our defense program and our
defense production must come
ahead of everything else. If we
let our defense program get
snarled up, or delayed, or slashed,
we would would be courting dis
aster.
A suggestion was made by one
Senator the other day that we
ought to cut down the goal for
our armed forces by half a million
men. At a time like this, such a cut
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Our defense program has two
parts. One part is building up our
own armed forces and our national
strength. The other is helping our
allies build up their strength so
that they can do their share in
preventing war and stopping ag
gression. Both these parts of our
defense program are vital to our
security.
Unless we help our allies, we
might have to face the world dan
ger alone. Unless our allies are
strong, the Kremlin might take
them over, and the danger of war
would increase. Without allies, our
defense would be more difficult,
and more costly—in dollars and
in lives. There is no economy in
slashing our foreign aid program.
Penny-pinching now may mean
throw'ing away the lives of our
soldiers later on.
Economy Vital At Home.
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not only increasing our armed
forces and making planes, tanks
and guns for them and for our
allies. It also includes having a
strong economy here at home. We
must be able to turn out greater
and greater quantities of goods
for our armed services, in case we
have to meet an all-out attack.
We have to have the economic
strength to carry our defense pro
gram for a long time to come. If
we are to be in this position, we
need more factories, and more
electric power, and a higher pro
duction of basic materials. We
need a sound and efficient civilian
economy to support our defense
production. This means housing
for defense workers, and adequate
public services to keep our defense
production functioning efficiently.
When we talk about cutting
non - defense expenditures, w e
must be sure that we don’t cut
the strength that supports our
defense effort. People who are try
ing to do this are not helping our
country. On the contrary, they
are injuring it.
Next to our defense program,
the most important thing is eco
nomic stabilization. And this in
cludes price control, wage control,
and rent control.
All these controls expire on June
30th, just six weeks from now.|
The Congress is now considering
whether these controls should be
extended for another two years.
Of course, they have to be ex
tended. If they are not, our
whole economy will be in great
danger, and every family in the
country will suffer.
Pressures on prices have eased
off a little lately, but these pres
sures will come back stronger than
ever in the next few months.
Must Hold Prices Down.
The more defense money we
spend, the higher prices will tend
to CO. Bv June 30 WP will have
spent about 19 billion dollars on
defense since the attack in Korea,
r year ago. In the year beginning
July first, our defense spending
will probably increase to about 40
billion dollars. After we have
built our defenses up enough to
meet the present danger, we hope
V>e won’t have to spend at such a
high rate, and prices will be easier
to hold in line.
But right now it will take every
thing we can do to hold prices
down. If we can hold them down
until we get over the hump of our
defense program, we will be past
the danger point. If we can't, the
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for our defense program and our
strength as a Nation
Now, if we are going to control
prices, the Congress has got to
say, and in no uncertain terms,
that it wants prices controlled.
Every special interest in the coun
try is down here in Washington,
or on its way, to lobby for a little
exception for itself. And most
of them can make out a pretty
good case for themselves. It would
be nice if we could give them ex
ceptions. But we can’t have a lot
of exceptions and still have ef
fective price control. If we handed
out all the exceptions that are
asked for, price control would be
like a sieve, and the tide of in
flation would pour through it.
We are not going to be able to
hold the cost of living against
the tremendous inflationary pres
sure ahead unless we have a good,
strong price control law, and a
good strong rent control law.
II you want that kind of law—
if you, the consumers of this
country, want Congress to pro
vide a strong price control system
—you'd better write your Con
gressmen, or see your Congress
men, and tell them so. The spec
ial interests and the lobbies will
wreck this stabilization program,
as sure as you’re born, unless the
main body of the citizens of this
country get busy and do something
about it.
Taxes Essential to Safety.
Another thing that ought to be
of special concern to every citizen
is our tax program. We have to
have more taxes if we are to pay
for our defense program and hold
down inflation. Nobody likes to
pay more taxes, but we’ve got to do
it because they are essential to the
safety and welfare of this country.
So far, we have been doing fairly
well in paying for our defense
program as we go along. But our
defense expenditures are going to
increase rapidly. We can’t keep
on paying as we go unless we have
more taxes. I
Taxes are not so hard to take If
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accordance with his ability to pay.
But if we let the special groups
come in and riddle the tax pro
gram with special exemptions, we
won’t have a good tax program, or
a fair tax program. We won’t be
able to balance the budget, and
we won’t be able to stop inflation.
I hope you will all realize, and
will take home as one of the mes
sages of this conference, that
higher taxes are necessary to our
defense program and to our survi
val as a Nation.
^t a time like this, when some
of our young men fighting and
dying to stop Communist aggres
sion, and when so many of our
boys face a period of military
service to prepare for whatever
may lie ahead, it ought to be easy
for this country to get together in
unity of spirit and action. It ought
to be the easiest thing in the
world to agree upon a good defense
program and a good foreign aid
program, and a sound program to
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it isn’t easy. It’s very difficult.
The main reason, I think, is that
most of our citizens—those who
do the fighting and pay the bills,
and keep the country going—are
just too occupied to make their
voices heard. If they had all the
facts, and their representatives in
! wasnington knew how they felt,;
11 don’t think we would have so
much trouble with these great
problems.
That’s why the work of this
conference means so much in the
present crisis of the world. The
future depends on the opinions
and decisions of our American
citizens.
If you can develop ways of
keeping our citizens better in
formed—of helping them to un
lerstand the increasing duties of
:itizenship—I have no doubt that
;his country will make the right
iecisions, and lead the world to a
ust and lasting peace.
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