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...Washington, not in the U. S., but aboard ship on the River Plate off Montevideo, Uruguay. The crew of the S. S. Algic, a 5,496-ton freighter owned by Joseph Patrick Kennedy's National Maritime Commission, refused to help unload cargo onto a lighter in midstream. Uruguayan longshoremen were on strike against employment of non-union labor. Inspired to a quixotic display of labor solidarity by three rabid unionists, the Algic's seamen swore they would not work with scab longshoremen until the River Plate froze solid...
...admiral's cabin he held a Uruguayan press conference for newshawks, Latin & U. S., each of whom had spent the day under the surveillance of an individually assigned detective. Before the President's departure, the able Montevideo police chief sent a delegation aboard to pay tribute at the coffin of dead U. S. Secret Servant Gus Gennerich. Then, still smiling, Franklin Roosevelt sailed for home, having had, as Santiago, Chile's El Mercurio declared, "The greatest apotheosis of his career...
...point of observing that Litvinoff is a Jew, that he barely got by as a traveling salesman, that he acted as a "fence" for Stalin and "other terrorists" and that he is "prone to shout 'Forged!' " when confronted by an opponent's evidence. What about the Uruguayan Minister, who is as much a party to the incident as Litvinoff? What kind of parents was Guani born of and how did he earn a living before becoming Minister...
Dull and superfluous are the facts of Dr. Alberto Guani's career. Born of middle-class Catholic parents, he graduated from the University of Montevideo to enter the Uruguayan Foreign Service. He was Minister to Austria from 1911 to 1913, Minister to Belgium until 1925 and since then Minister to France, with occasional trips to represent Uruguay before the League. TIME'S point was precisely that colorless Dr. Guani faced in Comrade Litvinoff a colorful...
Cabled Soviet Minister Alexander Minkin: URUGUAYAN FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS ME PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC WOULD CONSIDER HIMSELF COMPENSATED FOR OUR REFUSAL TO ADMIT RADOVITSKY IF WE WOULD BUY 200 TONS OR SO OF URUGUAYAN CHEESE. I WOULD RECOMMEND FOR IMPROVEMENT OF RELATIONS WITH PRESIDENT TERRA THE PURCHASE OF A SMALL CONSIGNMENT OF CHEESE...