Word: montevideo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latin Americans. That afternoon Mr. Hull paid his official call on Argentina's President Agustin Justo and next day he began to make his round of the delegations. At the last Pan-American Conference at Montevideo three years ago Mr. Hull flabbergasted and charmed his Latin-American colleagues: instead of paying them formally arranged visits he dropped in unannounced and waited his turn to be received; instead of going in top hat and cutaway, he clapped his grey fedora on his thin white hair and simply went calling.* As a class, Latin-American diplomats have been schooled abroad...
Dull and superfluous are the facts of Dr. Alberto Guani's career. Born of middle-class Catholic parents, he graduated from the University of Montevideo to enter the Uruguayan Foreign Service. He was Minister to Austria from 1911 to 1913, Minister to Belgium until 1925 and since then Minister to France, with occasional trips to represent Uruguay before the League. TIME'S point was precisely that colorless Dr. Guani faced in Comrade Litvinoff a colorful...
...Uruguayan Government recently satisfied itself that Communist revolutionaries in various South American countries have been cashing large checks drawn "to bearer" by the Soviet Legation in Montevideo. When it broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, it left Russia without a single embassy or legation in any South American country (TIME, Jan. 6). In rip-roaring fashion last week Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister pitched into Uruguay's Guani and soon sent the League of Nations off into gales of laughter by reading two cablegrams sent to. him in Moscow by the former Soviet Minister...
...take over for safekeeping the diplomatic paraphernalia of the Uruguayan Legation and consulate. Fortnight ago Uruguay, then the only South American country having diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, broke them off (TIME, Jan. 6), and last week Comrade Alexander Minkin, Soviet Minister to Uruguay, sailed away from Montevideo hissing threats in excitable Russian...
...Comintern. . . . We have proof that Minkin* was organizing a revolution in Uruguay for next February or March." In Moscow the official Bolshevik news-organ, Izvestia, promptly announced to the world proletariat that Uruguay had attempted to ''blackmail" Russia by threatening to break off relations unless Montevideo was given a large Soviet order for Uruguayan cheese. This was supposed to have stung Dictator Stalin into assuming a defiant attitude-i. e.. Millions for Revolution but Not One Cent For Cheese. Neutral observers considered it more likely, if cheese really entered the picture, that whichever Soviet official refused...