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...boat nailed the 5,785-ton Montevideo 300 miles from Bermuda. Of her crew of 49, two were known dead, 13 missing. Her master was Captain José Rodríguez Varela, chairman of the committee which had denied the wounded Admiral Graf Spee more than 24 hours in Montevideo (TIME. Dec. 25. 1939). He had said: "The Germans will never forgive me for this...
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...
...State Department, and for stubborn old Secretary Hull, the treaty was a triumph. At every Pan American Conference since Mr. Hull's visit to Montevideo in 1933, Argentina has found it to her best interests not to follow through on hemisphere solidarity. What the State Department had almost despaired of doing, World...
...Uruguayan Government this week completed plans for the biggest naval air base south of the Panama Canal. To be built on Laguna Negra, a lake close to the Atlantic Coast, 160 miles northeast of Montevideo, it will command the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a wide sweep of the South Atlantic. It will be constructed with U.S. funds lent and given to Uruguay for national defense. Like other Uruguayan ports, Laguna Negra Base will be open to U.S.. forces in case of war with the Axis...
Uruguay sent Dr. Hugo Fernández Artucio, its No. 1 anti-Nazi sleuth, out to continue his work abroad. A onetime professor of philosophy at the University of Montevideo, Dr. Fernandez started his investigations in Uruguay as a labor of love, published a book of his findings, aroused the Government to squelch Nazi organizations. Recently he conferred with Government officials in nine Latin-American countries. Last week in Washington he testified at the trial of the German Transocean news service, which was found guilty of operating an unregistered propaganda outlet (see p. 17). Next he goes to London...