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...opening day Uruguay's picturesque Civil Guard marched glittering through the streets of Montevideo in uniforms dating from the War of Liberation from Spain (1810). Escorted by galloping lancers Dr. Gabriel Terra, heavyset, heavy-jowled President & Dictator, sped to open the Conference at 6 p. m. Alighting from their limousines in a sudden squall of wind and rain, delegates of 21 American nations clutched their silk hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber...
While other nations bicker with each other across the Atlantic, the United States is busy untangling a delicate problem in the Western Hemisphere. At the Montevideo conference which began Sunday, Secretary of State Cordel Hull has as his purpose not only the establishment of amicable relationships among the Latin American countries, but the revival of a Pan-American Trade Union, once mutually beneficial, but which has in the last decade been allowed to die a lingering death...
...Conference collapse. Britain had been a disappointment. The foreign Press behaved outrageously. Europe wanted the best of every bargain. The President was most sympathetic, expressed complete confidence in his foreign minister, sent him away with a smile to prepare for another conference, that of the Pan-American Union in Montevideo in September...
Last week the censored newspapers' only reproaches spoke from great white spaces. Accused of suppressing two, Terra replied that troops had merely shut off their electrical power, stopping the presses. Montevideo businessmen were satisfied. But inland the estancia owners and peons awoke from their doze, waited in vain for news from Montevideo. They picked up an occasional scanty radio report from the Argentine, spread rumor and uneasiness by word of mouth. Observers agreed that the Constitution from which all power had leaked last week was probably unrefillable. What the new Constitution would be depended on how well Dictator Terra...
...Gabriel Terra, 60, heavy-set and heavy-jowled, looks not unlike President Harding. Uruguayans have never considered him the dictator type. A graduate of Montevideo University, he early gave up law practice to become a regular Colorado Party man. He won a name as a smart, respectable politician by vigorously backing public works: rural free schools, roads, harbors, airports, fertilizer factories, hydro-electric plants. He put through Uruguay's high tariff on agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after...