Word: uruguayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the rumble of rumbles came from tiny Uruguay, where pro-Argentine nationalists had long been making revolutionary faces. The Uruguayan Government merely announced that police and military plotters had been caught and arrested. Juan Domingo Perón, sitting 120 miles across the estuary in Buenos Aires, could probably fill in the rest of the story...
...same weeks the spectre of wheat and meat shipments has forced important oil and rubber concessions out of Peru, a customs union out of Bolivia, and has brought the Peron-sponsored candidates into a favored position in the coming Uruguayan elections. The U.S. may propose hemisphere military cooperation, but unless it supplements surface collaboration with effective economic opposition to Peron, the vital Spanish-speaking belt will be lost to American leadership as it is forced into the orbit of the power state below the Mar Del Plata. The past conduct of the Argentine government during the war is ample illustration...
...forceful Spruille Braden marched up to an NBC microphone last week, gave some straight talk on what the U.S. was up to in Latin America. The U.S., boomed Braden, thought Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodriguez Larreta's proposal for joint, tough measures against any American nation that violates "the elementary rights of man" was good stuff, "sound." That didn't mean, explained rugged Spruille, that the U.S. was going to "send the Marines anywhere." But neither would Uncle Sam sit around, hands in pockets, "while the Nazi-fascist ideology against which we fought a war endeavors to entrench itself...
Only five republics (including the U.S.) had accepted. Most of the others said no, or had reservations to the Uruguayan proposal on intervention (TIME, Dec. 3). But the point last week was whether to discuss the proposal at the Inter-American Conference at Rio next spring. To do so would raise the hot issue of Argentine violations of the basic rights of man. This was exactly what the U.S. wanted...
Some suspected that the Uruguayan note had originated in Spruille Braden's office. They were wrong. But the U.S. State Department was going all out to line up the lesser republics behind a forthright policy of intervention when & where intervention seemed necessary...