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...regime of President Gaulberto Villarroel, a 35-year-old Army major, had been recognized only by Argentina. The Inter-American Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, had agreed that its member nations should consult before taking action; they were still consulting last week. Argentina's totalitarian Government, ignored by the Committee and widely suspected of instigating the revolt (a Chilean Communist paper, El Siglo, said that Dictator-Colonel Juan Domingo Péron had boasted of doing so), had hesitated 14 days...
...long swells of the South Atlantic break angrily against lonely Tristan da Cunha. In the volcanic rock of this island group, halfway between Cape Town and Montevideo, they have scoured deep, dark caverns...
First Look, First Blood. Putting in at Montevideo on her shakedown cruise in 1939, the Helena got her first look at war when she passed close aboard the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, scuttled in the bay. Her second, closer look came at Pearl Harbor. She was hit, and that day her crew became a fighting team. Her 5-in. anti-aircraft battery, her light weapons spoke with the trained, nervous insistence of a machine. Helena knocked down six Jap planes that calamitous...
Pedro Figari, well known in the La Plata capitals and European art circles, almost unheard-of in North America* never had any academic training. Born in Uruguay in 1861 of Italian parentage, he studied law, traveled in Europe, served in the Montevideo Parliament, in 1900 became attorney for the Bank of the Republic...
Last week the Inter-American Hemisphere Defense Committee, set up in neighboring Montevideo to watch over United Nations interests in South America, took steps toward stricter control of Argentina's communications. A Committee resolution recommended control of communications from all American republics "to any American republic which has not severed relations with the Axis or ... taken steps to control communications." If accepted, the proposal meant that Argentina would be placed in a "communications quarantine" which would practically complete her isolation from other hemisphere nations. Without Argentina's consent, her direct communications with Axis Europe cannot be censored...