Word: uruguayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Secretary Byrnes affirmed the Braden doctrine that the hemispheric principle of non-intervention should not shield violators of the elementary rights of man. He also accepted Uruguayan Foreign Minister Alberto Rodriguez Larreta's ringing proposal that the American republics take joint action against oppressive regimes in their midst (TIME...
Poll & Payroll. Then, fairly sniffing the stale air of speakeasies and Minsky burlesque shows, and cocking an ear for the tugboat whistles that used to herald a civic reception for a Channel swimmer or a Uruguayan pingpong champ, the News set out to bring Jimmy back. It hired teams of canvassers (at $10 a day apiece) to poll the city, promising its readers that the poll "will be conducted scientifically and impartially." Actually, no Ja vote in Hitler's Reich ever packed a more loaded question than the one the News launched its poll with: "If not Walker...
Little, democratic Uruguay is a first-class annoyance to big, totalitarian Argentina across the La Plata estuary. Uruguay's irrepressible press takes pot shots at Argentine authoritarians. Uruguayan radio stations fill the air with gay and subversive news of the democratic world...
...grumpy retaliation, Argentine customs authorities recently began to harass Uruguayans leaving Argentina. They took candy from children on the grounds that it contained material "necessary to Argentine economy," confiscated polo sticks of departing sportsmen. They even tried to take the official seal from a Paraguayan Minister. Last week they pulled the meanest trick yet: they seized the trophy which a Uruguayan football team had won in Argentina...
Backed up by Jonas Ingram, his ships and his planes, the Uruguayan Govern ment announced its refusal to recognize the Villarroel regime. This action was a stinging slap for Argentina's Colonels. The Bolivian regime of Gualberto Villarroel, recognized only by Argentina, was firmly in the hemispheric doghouse; the U.S. was trying to line up its Latin friends in a united front to resist any further aggressions by Argentina. Then, when the stage was set, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to loose a long-advertised blast against the Argentine and Bolivian regimes...