Unlike earnest Russian Reds, the Communists of Uruguay have a highly developed sense of humor. Last week they played a practical joke on the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11). The joke kept august delegates of 21 American nations standing hungrily about in a great marble hall for more than an hour and a half while their dinner grew dry and stale.
The banquet had been tendered by massive President Dr. Gabriel Terra of Uruguay to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the nine other foreign ministers of American countries at...
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