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...Argentine yachtsman, Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...
...nova was discovered by Professor B. H. Dawson of the La Plata Observatory in Argentina. A week after its discovery it was already the eighth brightest star in the sky, its brightness increasing day by day. In the U.S. the nova is visible at 5:30 to 6 a.m., war time, almost on the meridian and some 15° above the southern horizon when viewed from the latitude of Manhattan, Denver or Tokyo. It is higher in the southern States, invisible in Canada except for southern Ontario...
Primarily the Knox junket (aside from giving a restless man a break from Washington routine) was to inspect defenses against submarine attacks which have spread from Iceland to the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Said Knox...
More important than the credit was a second shipment of U.S. war materials that arrived in Uruguay, across the River Plata from surly Neighbor Argentina...
...Uruguayan Government this week completed plans for the biggest naval air base south of the Panama Canal. To be built on Laguna Negra, a lake close to the Atlantic Coast, 160 miles northeast of Montevideo, it will command the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a wide sweep of the South Atlantic. It will be constructed with U.S. funds lent and given to Uruguay for national defense. Like other Uruguayan ports, Laguna Negra Base will be open to U.S.. forces in case of war with the Axis...