Word: cabildo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires, extreme nationalist organizations seized the golden opportunity to stage street demonstrations against what they termed Yankee bullying. Pro-Nazi newspapers, El Federal, Cabildo, La Fronda screamed the same note. Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo, in the first speech he had made in his three months in office, nicely balanced a protest of good-neighborly intentions with a proud declaration of independence. Many an Argentine who had looked on the military regime with a fishy eye was now moved to support it as defender of his country's sovereignty...
...coup had jangled the alarms in every "Good Neighbor" capital. Only from Argentina, whose authoritarian Government is busily cultivating an anti-U.S. bloc, came published approval. Buenos Aires' pro-Government newspaper El Cabildo could not "disguise our joy" at the revolt, "which had not surprised us. . . . We had expected it." The great democratic papers of Argentina, La Prensa and La Nation did not rejoice. The U.S. State Department, caught with its striped pants down, reserved comment until it could belatedly discover what elements were behind the revolt...