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...Montevideo, Uruguay, dictatorial Maestro Arturo Toscanini, nearing the end of a triumphal tour of South America, called his orchestra for a morning rehearsal on July 4. In the empty theatre he led his surprised men through The Star-Spangled Banner, waved a cheery greeting, dismissed them...
Huge crowds jammed the docks in Montevideo harbor one morning last week, cheered loud & long as the sleek, grey U. S. S. Quincy steamed slowly up to the quay. No automobiles were permitted within two blocks of the wharf and heavy guards kept the crowds far from the cruiser's berth. But when sailors came ashore they were greeted with enthusiastic cries of "Viva Roosevelt!" "Viva los Estados Unidos...
Thoroughly alarmed by the expose, hundreds of Uruguayans last week flocked to the colors as volunteers for military training and women's auxiliary service. At the same time, a Reich official in Montevideo threatened to break diplomatic relations if any of the 15 arrested Nazi leaders were deported, but promised, on the other hand, economic prosperity for Uruguay after the war if unfriendly agitation against Germany halted. By way of reply, the Uruguayan Senate hurriedly passed a law giving the Government power to censor press and radio and dissolving all foreign organizations.* A parliamentary committee proposed...
...Nazi Party and German Labor Front had been voluntarily dissolved. The Government replied by arresting twelve Germans, went ahead with its report, which traced Nazi activities directly to Minister Langmann. Three German gliders, one parachute and a dismantled radio station were found in a Nazi Stutzpunkt (strong point) near Montevideo and police in automobiles and airplanes began combing the country for more Stutzpunkte...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, when a boxer failed to appear at a charity boxing match for the Allied Red Cross, tall, grey-haired British Ambassador E. Millington-Drake shed coat but not tie, put on the gloves, sparred a few rounds with Señor J. Ambrosini...