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...Uruguayan Legation held Dr. Ricardo Dolz, Rector of Havana University; and Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...
...take this lying down. Within an hour three motors full of gunmen cornered the car of Dr. Ricardo Dolz, an anti-Machado leader and rector of the National University, and attempted to shoot him down. Their aim was poor. Blue with fright. Dr. Dolz escaped and hid in the Uruguayan Legation where he was promptly joined by another opposition leader, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...
...troops and airplanes to come and get them. As a final gesture the besiegers set fire to the wood. When the green trees would not burn, they shrugged their shoulders and went back to La Paz. Argentina made a formal protest to Uruguay that the revolt was hatched on Uruguayan soil. When Dr. Adolfo Guemes and Dr. Jose Luis Cantillo, Radical Party politicians, reached Buenos Aires from Montevideo they were promptly arrested, soon released. Onetime President Hipolito Irigoyen, about whom all the rumpus centred, was coughing with bronchitis on Martin Garcia Island. Dictator Uriburu ordered the new Congress convoked...
...Uruguayan editors U. S. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn also seemed last week to have horns, a tail. His diabolic act was to have testified before the U. S. Senate Finance Committee that "in the case of Germany there are hardly any [foreign bonds] in default. In the case of South America and Central America, unfortunately, the great majority are in default...
Enraged by this generality, El Pals of Montevideo flayed the Wall Street tendency "to group all South American Nations together as defaulters," argued that if even Banker Kahn did not appreciate the "heroic sacrifices" made by the Uruguayan people to meet interest and sinking fund charges on their bonds, Uruguay might as well declare a moratorium...