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Wary of Argentine red tape, fearing dearth of transportation to Germany might keep him in prison until war's end, Nazi Arnold appealed the extradition order Uruguay had granted, gained a 20-day reprieve. Last week, with a new passport obligingly issued by the German Legation in Montevideo, he thwarted Argentina again. Uruguayan police relented, granted him permission to sail for Rio de Janeiro, where he could catch a LATI plane for Italy. Steaming north aboard the Japanese Hawaii Maru, he had one more hurdle ahead: Brazil had not authorized his landing at Rio, so he would be forced...
Five days were then spent in Montevideo, Uruguay, where the same general program was followed; the group was very cordially received by the government officials and the American and British colonies. Here again the Secretary of State and other high government officials received the delegation...
Fortnight ago the British Legation in Montevideo issued an unusual decree: no British sailor, naval or mercantile, was to leave his ship without a local Briton as escort. Just as amazing was the official reason: Uruguayan maidens had become so immodestly pro-Allied that the honest British tars were embarrassed;* wherever they went they were greeted with effusive hugs and left covered with smears of sticky lip rouge. As the practice grew fashionable, local belles vied for the honor of kissing the most sailors, depositing the most makeup...
...grey, modest, smiling-eyed gentleman in a slack lounge suit wandered in, took off his coat, sprawled in a chair, talked as though Secretaries of State and Foreign Ministers were human beings. With the same tactics in 1933, Cordell Hull had saved the International Conference of American States at Montevideo from complete collapse. Until he exhausted this shirt-sleeve diplomacy in Havana, wise men did not entirely discount U. S. hopes for: 1) some sort of Pan-American "collective trusteeship" over French, Dutch, perhaps British possessions in Latin America; 2) at least a start toward a Hemisphere trade cartel, wherewith...
...distinction of Cordell Hull's term as Secretary of State has been his personal success at Latin-American Conferences. Almost singlehanded he saved the seventh Pan American Conference of 1933 at Montevideo, unobtrusively calling on Latin-American Foreign Ministers with a personal good-neighborliness that disarmed suspicion. When Mr. Hull flared up at the new Nazi attempt to influence the Conference, he used a tough word: he called it "intimidation." There was no theory, he said, on which any nation could attack the Havana meeting; there was no reason for any nation to attack the sovereign rights...