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Gags & Secret Arrests. The state of siege was born nine days after Pearl Harbor. Argentina's late President Ramon S. Castillo, deciding on "prudent neutrality," needed gags to still pro-Allied sentiment. He muffled the press, banned most political activity and public assembly...
Stalwart Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico's Foreign Minister since 1940, resigned last week as the result of a campaign of backstage intrigue and a storm of public criticism. Rivals within the Mexican foreign service, notably Francisco Castillo Najera, Ambassador to the U.S., had long been gunning for 6-ft., spruce Ezequiel, sometimes called "the black Narcissus" because of his darkish skin and elegant attire. Other political opponents may have undermined him with President Avila Camacho, hoping to head him off as a candidate in next year's presidential election...
...most of 'em smoking," he decided his boys weren't getting enough fresh air. So Pete pushed a small tank on wheels into the Hollywood American Legion Stadium, fed his fighter oxygen between rounds. The fighter, Bantamweight Benny Goldberg, punched out an easy victory over Luis Castillo and stayed fresh to the last bell...
...wiliest moves was his beguilement of the working press. Argentina's newspapers (La Prensa, La Natión, La Razón), traditionally free, frank and influential, smarted under the strict censorship begun by the Castillo regime. Instead of lifting the restrictions, which might have been dangerous for the regime, Perón forced the publishers to raise their employes' wages...
Onward Destiny. Together with Argentina's Government, Colonel Perón inherited Argentina's feud with the U.S. State Department. President Castillo had been a great Yankee-hater. Relations grew worse when Castillo was overthrown. Some of the new Spiritual Renovators looked not merely anti-U.S., but pro-Axis. U.S. newspapers began to cry that they were setting up a full-fledged Fascist state in the Western Hemisphere...