Suffering South America

Having twiddled thumbs since President Roosevelt's plans for booming Soviet-U. S. trade went awry (TIME, Feb. n et seq.), the U. S. Embassy staff in Moscow brightened up as they were given a job last week, proceeded to take over for safekeeping the diplomatic paraphernalia of the Uruguayan Legation and consulate. Fortnight ago Uruguay, then the only South American country having diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, broke them off (TIME, Jan. 6), and last week Comrade Alexander Minkin, Soviet Minister to Uruguay, sailed away from Montevideo hissing threats in excitable Russian.

"South America," hissed Minkin at the Continent, "will suffer!"

President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, indicating that he feels he has removed from his country a Red canker of Revolution, decreed the end of all his Government's "extraordinary measures to avert internal disorders," proclaimed a joyous amnesty, invited Uruguayan political exiles to come home if they please.

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