Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guiñazu announced that the German torpedoing of the Argentine freighter Rio Tercero (TIME, July 6) was a closed incident. Argentina had demanded: 1) an apology and assurances against repetition; 2) full indemnity; 3) a German salute to the Argentine flag. Germany had agreed to the first two, but had spurned the flag salute as an obsolete diplomatic practice unwelcome to the "new Germany...
Conspiracy. Three days later the U.S. got a sudden reminder of its careless prewar past, when the Bund was only a joke. In the tiny fishing village of Boca del Rio, six miles south of Mexico's steamy Vera Cruz, Mexican police nabbed swarthy Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, onetime leader of the German-American Bund, where he succeeded Fritz Kuhn. Wilhelm Kunze had lived quietly in a small hotel, had bought a launch for an escape by sea. Hustled back to the U.S., he awaits trial on a charge of having conspired to send military information to Germany and Japan...
Reason for this turnabout: it is safer and easier to ship coffee 1,600 miles from Colombia to New Orleans than 6,000 miles up the Atlantic from Rio. But Brazil will not be the loser. Brazilian bigwigs in São Paulo last week announced that the Good-Neighborly U.S. would buy up all Brazilian coffee not shipped by September's end. That will give Brazil a credit of over $25,000,000 on U.S. banks and give the U.S. a credit of perhaps 2,000,000 bags in Brazilian warehouses...
...Buenos Aires theater quickly postponed a showing of the new Nazi film U-Boats on the Western Track. There were street fights; German and Italian business houses were stoned. Germany's blunder clearly did not help such German propaganda as that reported by the captain of the freighter Rio Gallegos, just back in port. He told how a Nazi submarine commander had stopped him north of Bermuda, presented him with a Nazi decoration (from the commander's own breast) and a bottle of champagne...
Buenos Aires circles reported that Argentina's note to Germany on the Rio Tercero was stiff enough to save face, but in no way antagonistic. The Government was said to have demanded: 1) a German salute to the Argentine flag; 2) full damages and indemnities; 3) guarantees against repetition...