Innenminister (Uruguay) - Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga, Baltasar Brum, Feliciano Viera, Guillermo Stirling, Juan Campisteguy, Luis Hierro Lopez (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga, Baltasar Brum, Feliciano Viera, Guillermo Stirling, Juan Campisteguy, Luis Hierro Lopez, Daisy Tourne, Alberto Demicheli, Juan Andres Ramirez. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Baltasar Brum Rodriguez (, 1883 -, 1933) was a Uruguayan political figure. He was President of Uruguay from 1919 to 1923. His political convictions closely followed those of liberal President Jose Batlle y Ordonez, under whom Brum served as Education Minister 1913-1915. From 1915 he was Interior Minister. Brum subsequently served as Foreign Minister under the Presidency of Feliciano Viera; in the latter capacity, Brum was noted for promoting good relations with the United States, which had joined World War I against Germany in 1917. Brum's period of office as Foreign Minister proved to be somewhat controversial. In the autumn of 1917, American warships sailed to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires and a delegation issued threats to the country's President Hipolito Yrigoyen, in relation to the country's neutrality, which the United States insisted should be more clearly focused as being pro-American. Yrigoyen refused to be bowed by such threats from a military delegation, whereupon the American ships sailed to Montevideo, where they were warmly welcomed by Brum, in contrast to the guarded reception which the delegation had received in Buenos Aires. Brum later travelled to the United States and was received by the Secretary of State. Brum thus came to Presidential office of fun in 1919 as one with a reputation as a pro-American facilitator of US interests. During Brum's Presidency, he was noted for pursuing economic stability, but on the political front faced significant opposition from both his own Colorado Party, and notably from Luis Alberto de Herrera of the Blanco, or National, Party. Beyond the strictly political, Baltasar Brum was noted for interests in Uruguayan history and folklore. During his Presid...http: //booksllc.net/?l=de