834.00/811: Telegram
The Minister in Paraguay (Howard) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:35 p.m.]
43. My 42, March 11, 2 p.m.24 Decree No. 152, dated March 10, prepared in consultation with and signed by the Cabinet, is published in this afternoon’s papers. It may be summarized as follows: [Page 883]
Preamble. Considering that the organic act of the new regime provides for the convocation of a constituent assembly; that the magnitude of the change that has been effected shows that “the advent of the liberating revolution in Paraguay is of the same nature as the totalitarian social transformations of contemporaneous Europe in the sense that the liberating revolution and the state are identical”; that several groups of demagogic tendencies have been introducing into the popular ranks the germs of erroneous ideas as to the political, juridic, social, and state character of the revolution, the Provisional President decrees:
Article 1, the revolution and the state are identic; article 2, the revolution—state will immediately mobilize volunteers from among the citizens of the Republic for the fulfillment of its permanent objectives; article 3, for 1 year all political acts or organizations of a partisan or syndicalist nature not emanating explicitly from the State or the revolution is prohibited; article 4, all matters relating to the social policy of the state including relations between labor and capital are placed within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior; article 5 establishes a mobilization committee pursuant to article 2; article 6 establishes a national Department of Labor.
Repeated to Buenos Aires.
- Not printed.↩