Word: castillo
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...cankerous issue of neutrality broke out again last week. For the second time war and peace hung delicately in the balance -more delicately even than at the time of the revolt which put the Army and President Pedro Ramirez in power and "prudently neutral" ex-President Ramón Castillo in the discard (TIME, June 14). For this time the showdown was clearly between the "rupturists" and "anti-rupturists" in the Ramirez Government...
...Corrupt officials hanging over from the Castillo regime were being cleaned out daily; arrests made included ex-governors of provinces, deputies, municipal counselors and the like...
...government back to the politicians when it was cleaned up, that day seemed more remote than it had a month ago. To offset discontent over restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly and press, the Government rolled back rents, set certain price ceilings and exposed some graft in the deposed Castillo regime...
...emergency statute under which Mohandas K. Gandhi and 8,000 lesser All-India Congress leaders had been detained since last August. The Raj was unruffled. Technically the Viceroy accepted the judgment, but he refused to release edition of the newspaper Critica was suppressed for carrying an attack on Castillo and an appeal for speed in realizing hemisphere cooperation...
...city awoke to the tremendous news of Castillo's overthrow, the high hopes of a pro-United Nations middle class and workers' population blazed into action. None knew yet what the coup meant, but many believed that a democratic revolution was at hand. Axis and pro-Axis newspaper buildings were stoned. Extemporaneous speeches were made on street corners and from atop coffee tables. Fourteen busses and streetcars were damaged and leaking gasoline set afire. The cry "Viva la Democracia" echoed through the streets. A checkup found 40 killed...