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Flying the new CinCLant's flag was a brand-new four-star Admiral: barrel-chested Jonas Howard Ingram, Medal-of-Honorman and onetime Navy fullback, who had served a long tour fighting submarines and running diplomatic errands among the Latin Americas as Commander of the Fourth (South Atlantic) Fleet. He had done so well at both jobs that no Navyman begrudged hurricane-voiced, gregarious Jonas Ingram his new star and his job in the Navy's most important sea command outside of the Pacific...
Last week Hawaii's Governor Ingram M. Stainback announced that the overprint money would be discontinued as fast as it is used up, that regular U.S. currency was again legal. Admiral Nimitz, as commander of the Pacific Ocean areas (Kwajalein, Saipan, Peleliu, etc.), where the "Hawaii" greenbacks have also been used, concurred...
Said Vice Admiral Ingram, speaking in directly to Argentines across the estuary: "We have cleaned the enemy from the sea lanes of the South Atlantic. But in the Western Hemisphere not all our enemies are encountered on the high seas. We are down here to support and defend the friends of the Allies, wherever they may be. And battle Axis influences wherever they may be. ... The job of an armed force in wartime is to support our friends and bring discomfort to our enemies." The Vice Admiral's words amounted to a big-stick warning that...
Backed up by Jonas Ingram, his ships and his planes, the Uruguayan Govern ment announced its refusal to recognize the Villarroel regime. This action was a stinging slap for Argentina's Colonels. The Bolivian regime of Gualberto Villarroel, recognized only by Argentina, was firmly in the hemispheric doghouse; the U.S. was trying to line up its Latin friends in a united front to resist any further aggressions by Argentina. Then, when the stage was set, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to loose a long-advertised blast against the Argentine and Bolivian regimes...
After Vice Admiral Ingram's pointed remarks in Montevideo, the result was a crashing anticlimax. A prevalent guess in Washington: Argentina's Government had already heard enough, was about to break relations with the Axis, and Mr. Roosevelt did not want to anger its Government at a critical moment. If not, the U.S. had suffered a dismal setback...