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Unlike earnest Russian Reds, the Communists of Uruguay have a highly developed sense of humor. Last week they played a practical joke on the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11). The joke kept august delegates of 21 American nations standing hungrily about in a great marble hall for more than an hour and a half while their dinner grew dry and stale...
...each jealous of his rank, was the ticklish job of Senor Carlos de Yeregui, mincing-mannered Uruguayan Chef de Protocols. In plenty of time before the banquet Senor Yeregui called his limousine, set out from his office with the 200 precious place cards and the indispensable seating list. Chuckling, Montevideo's merry Communists stopped Senor Yeregui's car, forced his chauffeur to drive down a dark side street and held the frantic Chef de Protocole prisoner for agonizing hours...
...cast the Roosevelt Administration in the role of championing the forgotten bondholder. What Secretary Hull said, speaking without notes in a supposedly secret committee meeting, so enraged Dr. Puig that he roundly flayed the U. S. Delegation as advocates of "secret diplomacy" and praised the "honest press" of Montevideo for obtaining by pipeline methods the text of the U. S. Secretary of State's remarks and printing them three days later in Spanish...
...Hull had come to Montevideo under the same handicap which bound him at the London Monetary & Economic Conference (TIME, June 19). On Montevideo's agenda, as on London's, were the major problems of currency and tariffs. Because President Roosevelt remains cheerfully opposed to negotiating these problems, Mr. Hull's mission at Montevideo was to carry out what Mr. Roosevelt has called his "good neighbor policy." This Secretary Hull did for several days before the Conference opened by going about Montevideo in an ordinary business suit and calling on the always cutaway-clad Latin-American delegates without...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, 500 tuberculous hospital patients declared that their food was unfit to eat, went on a hunger strike. Doctors & nurses insisted the food was good, induced them to break the strike after two days. Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning...