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...those who liked informality, there was Uruguay's cosmopolitan Punta del Este, where everybody wore slacks or bright bathing suits. Few Argentines could afford Uruguayan vacation rates any more (about $50 a day in inflated Argentine pesos), but Brazilians, who turned to Uruguay's casinos after their own were outlawed in 1946, partly made up for the absent visitors from the south...
Over & over, the Buenos Aires radio blared praise of Peron and La Senora. Scarcely half an hour went by without a newscaster using the phrase: "The wife of the President of the Republic, Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron." Argentines were inured to such laminated logrolling, but their Uruguayan neighbors across the River Plate had to hear it too, and they were not amused...
...Argentines, eight Peruvians, five Chileans, five Bolivians, two Venezuelans, one Uruguayan...
...affair at the Trocadero theater made Uruguayans, including President Luis Batlle Berres, think again. Said the President in a ringing speech next day: "It is odd to think that there are Uruguayan citizens who would use force to impose their ideas on others. As citizen and President, I respect the beliefs of different men and different parties, but also as citizen and President, I say there must be respect for different opinions . . . This is not a challenge but a warning. If this is the first episode of a series, democratic government will meet it with the necessary force...
...example, when Argentina's President Juan Peron complained to Uruguayan Ambassador Roberto E. MacEachen last month that Montevideo radio stations were reporting the alleged plot against him in an unfriendly manner, MacEachen replied: "But in Uruguay we have a free radio...