Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buenos Aires representatives of the U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, sitting as the executive committee of the Chaco Peace Conference, had just announced that on the following day at 6 p. m. they would recognize the Colonel's 25-day-old Government. When they read its proclamation they abruptly changed their minds. Like Hitler and like Stalin, dictatorial Franco spoke of his gang as constituting "The Revolution" and announced that it is the State. In 1936 this has become the usual crude variant of Louis XIV's elegant platitude, L'etat...
Colonel Franco sent them away with pat-on-the-back assurances that "Paraguay is a natural democracy." Duly reassured, the Franco regime was thereupon recognized by the U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay...
Never has TIME'S contumely been so curt, clear and concise, never have its prejudices been so transparent as in its report of the Soviet- Uruguay business at Geneva (TIME, Feb. 3, p. 16). . . . You make a point of observing that Litvinoff is a Jew, that he barely got by as a traveling salesman, that he acted as a "fence" for Stalin and "other terrorists" and that he is "prone to shout 'Forged!' " when confronted by an opponent's evidence. What about the Uruguayan Minister, who is as much a party to the incident as Litvinoff...
...Alberto Guani's career. Born of middle-class Catholic parents, he graduated from the University of Montevideo to enter the Uruguayan Foreign Service. He was Minister to Austria from 1911 to 1913, Minister to Belgium until 1925 and since then Minister to France, with occasional trips to represent Uruguay before the League. TIME'S point was precisely that colorless Dr. Guani faced in Comrade Litvinoff a colorful...
...past 50 years there have been 15 uprisings in Brazil and twelve in Uruguay, and today each has a President who gained power by a coup d'etat. Does the history of these countries really lead us to believe they can be in need of guidance from outsiders in the art of uprisings...