Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flying over continents and oceans keeps nations as busy and anxious as mothers whose children are at large in the neighbors fields, playing "sardines" or "Indians." Last week it was Spain's turn to look for missing flyers, Uruguay's to worry. Major Tadeo Larre-Borges and three comrades, the flower of Uruguay's few aviators, had left Casablanca, Spanish Morocco, for Cape Juby, 600 miles further down the West coast of Northern Africa, in a seaplane which they sought to fly across the Atlantic. But they had not turned up at Cape Juby. The Spanish government ordered a search...
...plane was sighted, wrecked on the North African sea dunes, 60 miles from Cape Juby. Then a native trotted in to civilization with a letter from Major Larre-Borges. Moorish tribesmen had taken him and his comrades and their possessions into camp, he said. There must be a ransom. Uruguay cabled its diplomats to spare no cost. Spain mustered a military rescue party. Semi-financial negotiations moved. Commercial planes flew out to pick up the castaways...
President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba and President Jose Serrato of Uruguay maintained an air of Augustan calm last week while their Foreign Ministers quarreled over a sneer. Senor Alfredo Guani, Uruguayan representative in the Assembly of the League of Nations, allegedly launched the sneer by remarking while at Geneva last fall: "Cuba is tied to the U. S. by her Permanent Treaty."* This remark, unheeded by the rest of the world, has been bandied for months by the Cuban and Uruguayan press until, last week, Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Uruguay, alleging that, "the Cuban national honor...
...Administration pointed to a Senate which adopted† a resolution for U. S. entrance into the World Court. Reservations were attached. Nevertheless, all good nations were expected to be pleased at having the U. S. in the World Court under any conditions. Seven months passed. Liberia, Cuba, Greece, Uruguay opened their arms, welcomed the U. S. into the brotherhood. Other nations remained cool, indifferent. Meanwhile, at home, Senators began to find that their constituents were not pleased with the votes they had cast for the World Court. In April, Senator William B. McKinley was defeated for renomination in the Illinois...
...Boris Kraevsky, Soviet Commercial Agent to South America, cabled jubilantly last week to Moscow. He had just secured the first de jure recognition of Soviet Russia by a South American state- Uruguay. To newsgatherers he said: "My mission consists purely in establishing commercial relations between the U. S. S. R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics: Russia) and South America. . . . Yes, I have installed a central office in Buenos Aires. . . . During the past eight months our purchases of Uruguayan products have totaled...