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April 25, 1939

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TOTALITARIAN RULE DECREED IN BOLIVIA BY PRESIDENT, 35; Busch Assumes Dictatorial Powers, Doing Away With Congress and Basic Law HOLDS BANKRUPTCY NEAR Executive Disavows European Inspiration--Says Political Chaos Was Threatened Regime Is Totalitarian Seeks Industrial Peace TOTALITARIAN RULE DECREED IN BOLIVIA Saw Bankruptcy Close Foianini the Architect Owes Job to Expropriation In Conference Four Days Planned Senate Elections Chile Anxious Over Coup Hull Reserves Comment

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Bolivian Pres Busch decrees death penalty for those convicted of fraud, embezzlement or perjury

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Tarcisio Burgnich

1939Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (died 2021)[†]

Tarcisio Burgnich was an Italian football manager and player, who played as a defender.

Michael Llewellyn-Smith

1939Michael Llewellyn-Smith, English academic and diplomat[†]

Sir Michael John Llewellyn-Smith is a retired British diplomat and academic. He served as Ambassador to Poland from 1991 to 1996 and Ambassador to Greece from 1996 to 1999. He is visiting professor at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London.

Robert Skidelsky

1939Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, English historian and academic[†]

Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume, award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). Skidelsky read history at Jesus College, Oxford, and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, England.

1939Veronica Sutherland, English academic and British diplomat[†]

Dame Veronica Evelyn Sutherland, DBE, CMG is a former British career diplomat who served in the Diplomatic Service of the United Kingdom from 1965 until 1999, including a stint as Ambassador to Ireland. After retirement, she was appointed President of the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge from 2001 until 2008.