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...tape, fearing dearth of transportation to Germany might keep him in prison until war's end, Nazi Arnold appealed the extradition order Uruguay had granted, gained a 20-day reprieve. Last week, with a new passport obligingly issued by the German Legation in Montevideo, he thwarted Argentina again. Uruguayan police relented, granted him permission to sail for Rio de Janeiro, where he could catch a LATI plane for Italy. Steaming north aboard the Japanese Hawaii Maru, he had one more hurdle ahead: Brazil had not authorized his landing at Rio, so he would be forced to remain aboard ship...
Fortnight ago the British Legation in Montevideo issued an unusual decree: no British sailor, naval or mercantile, was to leave his ship without a local Briton as escort. Just as amazing was the official reason: Uruguayan maidens had become so immodestly pro-Allied that the honest British tars were embarrassed;* wherever they went they were greeted with effusive hugs and left covered with smears of sticky lip rouge. As the practice grew fashionable, local belles vied for the honor of kissing the most sailors, depositing the most makeup...
Suspicious foreigners suggested another possible reason for the order, that spy-conscious British diplomats feared their tars would fall into the hands of Uruguayan Mata-Haris...
Coming on the heels of a Trojan-horse scare which swept over South America, the Quincy was hailed, a little extravagantly, as Washington's answer to the discovery of a Nazi plan for military occupation of Uruguay (TIME, June 24). That plan, a Uruguayan Congressional investigating committee asserted, had been calculated to convert "our nation into a country of peasants...
Thoroughly alarmed by the expose, hundreds of Uruguayans last week flocked to the colors as volunteers for military training and women's auxiliary service. At the same time, a Reich official in Montevideo threatened to break diplomatic relations if any of the 15 arrested Nazi leaders were deported, but promised, on the other hand, economic prosperity for Uruguay after the war if unfriendly agitation against Germany halted. By way of reply, the Uruguayan Senate hurriedly passed a law giving the Government power to censor press and radio and dissolving all foreign organizations.* A parliamentary committee proposed...