1. Baltasar Brum Rodriguez, GCTE was a Uruguayan political figure.
15 Facts About Baltasar Brum
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Baltasar Brum was President of Uruguay from 1919 to 1923.
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Baltasar Brum was a member of the Economic-Administrative Board, a Professor and Minister and Diplomat.
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Baltasar Brum was an ardent defender of women's rights and inaugurated the Artigas Monument in Plaza Independencia.
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Baltasar Brum subsequently served as Foreign Minister under the Presidency of Feliciano Viera; in the latter capacity, Baltasar Brum was noted for promoting good relations with the United States, which had joined World War I against Germany in 1917.
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In line with Batlle's proposal in 1907 in The Hague in favor of compulsory arbitration for the resolution of international conflicts, Baltasar Brum developed its application in the bilateral agreements that were signed, the first with Italy and then with other countries.
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Baltasar Brum thus came to presidential office in 1919 as one with a reputation as a pro-American facilitator of US interests.
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The dislike of each other by the two men was strong enough that President Baltasar Brum challenged Herrera to a duel with pistols, which was fought near Montevideo on 14 December 1922, in front of several hundred government officials.
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President Baltasar Brum proposed to a Commission appointed by the National Council of Administration, as a tribute to the Centennial celebrations, a program of laws taken from the plan of the League of Nations.
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Many of these postulates, Baltasar Brum said in his Message, had already been incorporated into legislation, for which Uruguay had deserved the praise of Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Wilson.
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Baltasar Brum's proposals adumbrated the hemisphere security pact of 1947, the tighter inter-American organization evolved at the Bogota Conference in 1948, and the relationship between that organization and the United Nations.
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Baltasar Brum gave a conference in the Plaza Constitucion de Fray Bentos which analyzed the problem of unemployment and the need to provide land to those working it.
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Beyond the strictly political, Baltasar Brum was noted for interests in Uruguayan history and folklore.
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On 31 March 1933, on the installation of President Gabriel Terra's rule by decree, Baltasar Brum attempted to lead resistance to Terra's government.
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Baltasar Brum was aged 49 at the time of his death.