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Leaving historians to decide what if anything was accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches...
What its delegates thought of the treaties and agreements they have made, the Seventh Pan-American Conference showed last week by breaking up at Montevideo in a manner remindful of harridans struggling over cut-rate stockings in a bargain basement...
...French general, a British general, an Italian count, a Mexican major and a suave Spanish diplomat named Don Julio Alvarez del Vayo stopped the war between Bolivia and Paraguay (see p. 15) but nearly all their kudos was stolen last week by Montevideo's well-publicized Seventh Pan-American Conference (TIME...
...Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (see p. 12), the Cuban Government denounced Ambassador Welles for "intrigue" against President Grau San Martin. In Havana, despite the traditional close-mouthed clannishness of diplomats, Mr. Welles was also denounced by Dr. Fernandez y Medina, the Uruguayan Minister to Cuba. For the past month Dr. Fernandez has been negotiating among Cuban politicians with an aim similar to that usually ascribed to Mr. Welles, namely, to obtain by peaceful persuasion the resignation of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin as President and the formation of a coalition government which would hold a fair Cuban election...
...Division remained intact. General Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda had managed to wriggle through the encircling Paraguayans and escape with 3,000 men. The Government made him a Brigadier General, handed him the nation's defense. Meanwhile at the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo, Paraguay proposed an unrestricted truce. Peace in Chaco seemed at hand...