Word: uruguayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uruguayan Government this week completed plans for the biggest naval air base south of the Panama Canal. To be built on Laguna Negra, a lake close to the Atlantic Coast, 160 miles northeast of Montevideo, it will command the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a wide sweep of the South Atlantic. It will be constructed with U.S. funds lent and given to Uruguay for national defense. Like other Uruguayan ports, Laguna Negra Base will be open to U.S.. forces in case of war with the Axis...
This was the problem of naval and air bases on the river, which the U.S. wants the right to use, but which Argentina wants left securely in South American hands. The Uruguayan Government was preparing a formula under which any American nation at war with a country outside the hemisphere would be classed as a nonbelligerent...
This ingenious scheme would nullify the provision of international law which limits the stay of belligerent warships in a neutral port to 24 hours. It would enable the U.S. to use Uruguayan ports and airfields as first-line refueling and supply bases. All that remained was for Dr. Ruiz and Uru guay's Foreign Minister Alberto Guani to agree on an equally ingenious formula to get new bases built with U.S. money without raising cries of Yanqui Imperialism...
Greenwich House Music School was founded 35 years ago, in one room with one pupil, one piano. Now headed by a lanky Uruguayan violinist, Enrique ("Hank") Caroselli, it has two remodeled Greenwich Village houses, teaches more than 600 children and adults. Fees for lessons in voice, violin, piano begin at 50?, are shaved or even waived for the needy. Like most settlement schools, Greenwich House is less interested in training professional musicians than in teaching music as an avocation. But it is proud-just as Chicago's Hull House is of Benny Goodman and Manhattan's Music School...
...Uruguay $7,500,000, part to finish a power dam on the Negro River started five years ago with German capital, the rest to improve the beef and wool indus tries. Since Great Britain has already bought all Uruguay's 1941 wool clip, the Uruguayan loan is indirect aid to Britain...