COMMUNISTS BELIEVED BEHIND THE SCENES
Reeeived Simday, 7.40 p.m. NEW YORK, April 10. Observers believe yestefday's revolution and rioting in the Colombian capital may have "been directly inspired by Communists to wreck the PanAmerican eonference before plans for a comprehensive anti-Communist purge hy the 21 nations taking part, could be put into effect, sdys Reuter's Bogota eorrespondent. The rioters were clisorgariised hut iinderneath there was a clear pattern indicating that what had almost cdrtainly sprung from an unpremeditated murder, was heing taken advantage ef hy other forces. The Governrnent buildings were a centre of the attack and eonference headqttarters were wrecked. The chances of the eonference ever resiuning again in Bogota — except perhaps in Some face-saving rump session — seenied rernote today. The Governrnent vvoitld clearly be unable to . provide acilities for the resiunption of full cale deliberations for days and perhaps weeks.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 April 1948, Page 5
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