Word: cabildo
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Argentina's military Government was having its face lifted last week, hoping to look more democratic when (& if) a Pan American Conference assembles to judge its case. Three moves came in rapid succession. Cabildo, nationalist and often pro-fascist daily, was suspended for eight days for denouncing as pro-U.S. the new, tough supervisor of German firms. Argentina Libre (Free Argentina), a strongly democratic weekly closed for more than a year, was allowed to appear again. It started off with a bang, featuring on its front page a cartoon of Adolf Hitler about to be sealed...
Slapping back at U.S. critics of Argentina's nationalism, Buenos Aires' rabidly nationalist Cabildo last week proclaimed itself and its readers possessed of "an Argentine conception of Argentinity," proceeded to furnish an example...
...Cabildo, a pro-Nazi mouthpiece of the ultranationalists, ran an editorial entitled "The Intemperate Old Man," found Secretary Hull "prey to abnormal exasperation...
...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...