Word: uriburu
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Tearing the bride (symbolically) from the bridegroom's arms is a merry old Argentine custom. Weddings wait not even on revolutions. In Buenos Aires last week?while the conquering revolutionist General José Francisco Uriburu was taking his oath as Provisional President ("by God, our Father, and the evangelical saints")?a smart wedding party feasted on champagne, prepared to "tear" the bride. Consequences were historic, bloody...
Someone yelled "Counter revolution!" In a half-second the marching revolutionary troops sprang into action. Unlimbering their guns they raked the wedding fiesta, then, loyal to Provisional President Uriburu ("Idol of the Army"), they dashed for the nearby Plaza de Mayo (Government Square), eager to shoot up counter-revolutionaries who must be storming the Casa Rosada ("Pink House:" executive mansion...
...Ballots Rule!" Meanwhile slim, wiry General Uriburu, by this time "Head of the Provisional Government." was orating from a balcony of the "Pink House": "Fellow countrymen, the Army . . . true to Democratic tradition . . . has performed its duty! . . . Now it is up to you to fulfill the mission begun by the National Army. The Saenz Pena electoral law has given you the most powerful arm of Democracy [voting by secret ballot]. . . . Let us now sheath our swords and let ballots rule...
...before the secret ballots had opportunity to show their potency, if any, the streets of Buenos Aires were again bullet-spattered. It was the night after the new Uriburu cabinet had been sworn in. Avenue de Mayo was a river of paraders and merrymakers glittering in the light from ten thousand windows. Suddenly from sidestreets groups of soldiers attacked. No one knew why. Women screamed. Men cursed. Confusion. But next morning it appeared that Pampas Lord Uriburu was still, for a while at least, Lord of All Argentine...
...relieved. El Hombre signed with Viscount D'Abernon in Buenos Aires last year a $38,880,000 mutual trade agreement highly advantageous to Britain, distinctly menacing to U. S. trade. Does that still stand? Worried, the London Daily Herald, organ of James Ramsay MacDonald, called up General Uriburu to ask. Over a radio telephone span of 7,000 miles the General answered slowly, loudly in English...