Word: baldomir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apart. The new Constitution arbitrarily gave three of nine Cabinet posts and an equal division of Senators to the leading opposition party (provided, as invariably occurs, that the two leading parties together poll a majority). This law has been a thorn in the democratically elected Government of President Alfredo Baldomir...
...General Luis Alberto de Herrera, the oppositionists became obstructionists. Some were pro-Ally, some were pro-Axis (and were glad that nearby Argentina and Chile still maintained Axis relations), but all the Herreristas were anti-Baldomir. They used Uruguay's grant of air and naval bases to the U.S. as a political football. Last week, when Baldomir's supporters were dozing, they sneaked through the Senate a 10-to-6 vote censuring the Government policy of continental solidarity and hemisphere defense...
President Baldomir acted quickly. He dissolved Parliament, marched troops to danger points in Montevideo. He postponed the Presidential election scheduled for March 29. He announced that a Council of State would govern-and prepare a new reform to remedy the 1934 reform-until a plebiscite and the postponed Presidential election are held. He accepted Minister of War Julio A. Roletti's resignation because of "ill health," gave the post to Foreign Minister Alberto Guani "temporarily"-i.e., long enough for wise old Alberto Guani to make sure of the Army's loyalty...
Herreristas promptly charged that Baldomir was automatically out of office for "violating the Constitution." Trailed by a pickup crowd, they tried to force their way into the Congressional Hall. Barred by police, they shouted abuse until the police charged, injuring three Herreristas and two bystanders...
President General Alfredo Baldomir accepted an invitation to President Roosevelt's proposed inter-American economic conference to try to see how far the hemisphere's abundance might be traded within the hemisphere (see p. 12). He went even further, suggested a Pan-American conference of ministers of war and chiefs of staff to study problems of mutual defense...