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Uruguayan waters for use by the United States.
Uruguay's record during the world war was equally
good. Late in 1939, a naval engagement took place in adjacent
waters which attracted world wide attention and which has since
been described by Winston Churchill as the first sizeable victory
for the cause of the free nations. The German pocket battle-
ship Graf Spee was raiding in South Atlantic waters when it was
sighted by three British cruisers who gave battle. The Graf Spee
was crippled in the engagement and sought refuge in the harbor
of Montevideo. Terming this a violation of the neutral zone
established around the Americas by the Declaration of Panama (1939),
the Uruguayan Government courageously gave the Germans forty-
eight hours to leave port. This was later extended to 72 hours
and the German Commander, believing his ship too badly damaged to
renew the struggle, sailed out of port and scuttled his ship
within easy sight of thousands of Montevideans grouped along the
water front. As Uruguay lacked ships or planes or guns to enforce
its edict, its people proudly relate this incident as a moral vic-
tory in a good cause.
For the past decade, Uruguay has consistently lived up to
its reputation as the model democracy of South America. While
there is opposition, and in some places bitter opposition, to
the socialistic character of its government, on the whole the
people are intensely proud of its reputation as a laboratory for
social and economic development.
To the charge that many of its state-owned corporations lose
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