Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01

Lima to his home city of Are
quipa in the south. and called
for a popular revolt against
election fraud"
Set Stage for Junta
The revolt fizzled. But Mr..
Belaunde unabashedly admits
that he set the stage for the
military junta which threw
out the civilian government in
July and which has ruled the
country for the last year.
I'VE stimulated the military
to act by proclaiming our OPP
position to the fraud" he said
during an interview in Lima
with The Star before the latest
election. I'VE created the
civilian climate for military
action"
That action was really d.
rected against Victor Raul
Haya de la Tore and his
APRA party who have been
fighting a blood feud with the
military for over 80 years. In
the 1862 elections Mr.. Haya
de Ia Tore came within one
half a percentage point of
winning the presidency, and
his party won a working ma
jority in the powerful con-
greSS.
This year enough Of the 2
million Peruvian voters seem
to have learned the lesson that |
the military sought to teach
against giving Haya de la
Tore and his party power.
Sufficient numbers turned to
Mr.. Belaunde, a relatively new
face in Peruvian politics, and
the known favorite of the
Junta strongman-Gen. Nico-
las Lindley Lopez.
Studied Architecture in U. S.
Mr.. Belaunde, 51-year-old
architect, is handsome, artic-
ulate and foreign educated.
His family is respectable, but
not wealthy in the Peruvian
oligarchal tradition. Separated
from his wife, he lives with
two sons and a daughter in a
comfortable modern home in
a Lima suburb.
Educated in Paris and the
United States, where he stud
led architecture from 1925 to
1885 in Florida and at the Uni
versity of Texas, Mr.. BelaundeI
discovered he had more of a.
flare for politics than archi-
lecture. In 1915 he was elected
to the lower house of Congress,
where he not only sponsored
a law for public housing prof.
ects, but also planned and
designed three such projects
around the capital.
Start of Political Career
But his modern political
career began in 1856. Just be-
fore the presidential elections
that year he hastily organ
lied his Accion Popular Pop
ular Action Party. 1t was a
mixture Of nationalism and
extreme leftisn. During the
first years of the Castro reign
in Cuba after 1859, leading
elements Of the party openly
expressed their sympathy for
budding Cuban communism.
The years and realities of
Peruvian politics have mel
lowed Mr.. Belaunde. During
the last year most of the ex-
tremist elements have left him
in open disenchantment. In
the elections last year he
lodged a firm stand against
Mr.. Castro or communism, but
this year he firmly repeated
his opposition to both.
Some people in my party
have tried to force me toward
Castro" Mr.. Belaunde said
during the interview. But 4
do not believe in communism
and I am against Soviet mill
tary Intervention in this hemi-
sphere"
His anti = communism has
also been fortified by the
election pact he made this
time with the predominantly
Roman Catholic Christian
Democrats. They supported
him in lieu of running their
own candidate.
Has Own Ideas
But Mr.. Belaunde is a man
with vague revolutionary ideas
of his own. He is a self-pro-
claimed nationalist who bases
his vague theology on such
catchy phrases as Peru as a
doctrine" He wrote a book en-
titled THE Conquest Of Peru
by the Peruvians."
His overall plan Of action
appears TO be based on a mix
ture Of Christian ethics and
still older Inca values. He
wants basic reforms, he says,
but they are to be achieved
without the use of force. One
Of the most basic is what he
calls the revolution Of cred
its" which will break the mo-
nopoly power Of private banks
in Peru.
Cites Three Areas for Aid
During his interview with
The Star. he outlined three
spcific areas where he would
like hemisphere aid through
the Alliance for Progress.