824.00/7–2146: Telegram
The Ambassador in Bolivia ( Flack ) to the Secretary of State
us urgent
La
Paz
, undated.
[Received July 21, 1946—12:10 p.m.]
[Received July 21, 1946—12:10 p.m.]
Unnumbered. Attention Byrnes. Anarchy has broken loose in La Paz. Students and public have secured guns and ammunition from Municipal Palace and have attacked and taken traffic headquarters. No evidence of soldiers or police in streets. Please inform War and Justice Departments.36
Flack
- In telegram 684, July 21, 1946, the Ambassador reported that a Junta Institutional had taken over the Government (824.00/7–2146).↩