Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American States was torpedoed by one of the smaller men in one of the smaller major American States. Hardly was the ink dry on the Pan-American Conference's unanimous resolution to eschew barter-trade deals with the European dictator nations, when small but rich Uruguay O. K.d a deal with Italy which, swapping wool for armaments, is expected to treble trade between the countries...
...situation was that stocky Dr. Gabriel Terra was not among the delegates to the Lima conference. Uruguay's welterweight strongman, who ran the country personally for seven years before turning it over to be technically run by his brother-in-law six months ago, was at home in Montevideo, touting the wonders of the Italian Government, whose guest he had just been. When the Uruguayan stooges at Lima got through renouncing the principle of trading with the dictatorships, Dr. Terra's Fascist friends cheerfully sprang the trade agreement they had been making for months in Rome...
This situation, however, was no embarrassment to Dictator Benavides. for of the 21 "democracies" represented at the Conference, only nine-U. S., Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Uruguay- could be defined as States under popular rule. Said Strong Man Benavides, with more subtlety than he perhaps intended: "We cannot offer you, on as grand a scale as some of the other American nations, the harmonious spectacle of a great city that could shelter you as could other capitals. But we do claim your attention to the evolutionary processes of our nationality...
...Uruguay then sailed south for Montevideo and Buenos Aires. On the way back north the Uruguay hove into Rio on November 17 to be hailed by a cheering delegation of 200 Brazilian seamen. The man they cheered for was Good Neighbor Wyly. The delegation escorted him to a flag-draped automobile, sped him to the hospital to receive the thanks of the recuperating stevedore, then took him back to his ship. There they gave him a gold medal; a twelve-inch gold filigree model of the windjammer Saldanha da Gama, $25 in cash and an offer of a life...
Back in Manhattan last week Able Sea man Wyly, in the creased and scrubbed dungarees of his calling, diffidently owned up to his heroism, hastened off to bunk at the Sea men's Y. M. C. A. until the Uruguay was ready for another Good Neighbor errand...