Word: montevideo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French general, a British general, an Italian count, a Mexican major and a suave Spanish diplomat named Don Julio Alvarez del Vayo stopped the war between Bolivia and Paraguay (see p. 15) but nearly all their kudos was stolen last week by Montevideo's well-publicized Seventh Pan-American Conference (TIME...
Walter Reed Hospital was the next stop. Bern of War, laid up with an ocular infection, was sitting up but he could not do any business. With Secretary Hull in Montevideo, Postmaster General Farley in Europe, two clays later the President discovered that for the first time in his Administration he could hold no Friday Cabinet meeting. There was no quorum. ¶Lewis Douglas went to the White House to talk Budget. He figured the Government would take in 3½ billions next year, disburse 2½ billions normally, have a billion left over to reduce the national debt...
Peace on earth, free trade among nations and equality between the sexes were three noble ideals of which the Seventh Pan-American Conference in Montevideo last week nobly voted approval (with reservations...
...American Conference at Montevideo (see p. 12), the Cuban Government denounced Ambassador Welles for "intrigue" against President Grau San Martin. In Havana, despite the traditional close-mouthed clannishness of diplomats, Mr. Welles was also denounced by Dr. Fernandez y Medina, the Uruguayan Minister to Cuba. For the past month Dr. Fernandez has been negotiating among Cuban politicians with an aim similar to that usually ascribed to Mr. Welles, namely, to obtain by peaceful persuasion the resignation of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin as President and the formation of a coalition government which would hold a fair Cuban election...
...Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda had managed to wriggle through the encircling Paraguayans and escape with 3,000 men. The Government made him a Brigadier General, handed him the nation's defense. Meanwhile at the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo, Paraguay proposed an unrestricted truce. Peace in Chaco seemed at hand...