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Wliooo! Wheee! Piercing siren screams roused the Conference and all Montevideo. The siren belongs to El Pueblo, newsorgan of Uruguay's Dictator-President, Dr. Gabriel Terra. When it shrieks there is urgent news. So many Montevidians rushed pell mell to see what was being chalked up on El Pueblo's bulletin board that the police had to be called out. Though it was afternoon El Pueblo, confident that no other Montevideo paper could get the story, announced with the dignity of a Dictator's newsorgan that it would print no extra, that the public would have...
Since President Terra had been appealing to Bolivia and Paraguay for peace in the name of the Conference, Montevideo and many a headline reader throughout the world jumped to the conclusion that the Conference had "settled" the conflict. Facts are that a long-suffering League of Nations Commission has been wallowing about in the swamps between Bolivia and Paraguay. Its members, the major, the two generals, the count and Spanish Chairman Alvarez del Vayo began by conferring in Asuncion with Paraguayan President Eusebio Ayala, a onetime professor of philosophy. They wallowed across the Chaco battlefield and were...
...banquet had been tendered by massive President Dr. Gabriel Terra of Uruguay to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the nine other foreign ministers of American countries at the Conference. To seat the 200 statesman-guests, 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...
Such is the nature of statesmen that without the seating list they could not eat. President Terra is the Dictator of Uruguay in affairs of state but he dared not try to seat his guests for fear of making a faux pas. Secretary Hull, though he had urged "informality" and harped on President Roosevelt's "good-neighbor policy" ever since the Conference opened, did not rise to this emergency with any such suggestion as "Why don't we all just sit down...
...speech opening the Conference, President Terra urged the delegates to grapple: 1) with the economic issues: and 2) with the 18-month-old Chaco War of Bolivia and Paraguay...