URUGUAY: Refreshments at Montevideo

The presidents of cocky little Uruguay, big Argentina and bigger Brazil have been exchanging goodwill visits for a year. Last fortnight Brazil's Getulio Dornelles Vargas called on Argentina's Agustin P. Justo (TIME, June 3). Last week Vargas went on to Montevideo, with his wife & daughter, to visit Uruguay's smart, stolid President Gabriel Terra, who runs a firm dictatorship over the most up-&-coming people in South America.

President Terra hastened to ask President Vargas to forget any silly rumors he may have heard of an anti-Terra plot. President Vargas effusively assured his host that he knew the rumors to be...

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