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...Ramon S. Castillo is a smallish, mild-appearing man with a deceptive resemblance to Cinemactor Frank Morgan. His seeming mildness hides the fears of Argentina's great families that a democratic victory in World War II will result in the unthinkable catastrophe of majority rule. Last week, when the majority threatened briefly to make its will felt, President Castillo's mildness vanished...
Outstanding figures were Argentina's President Ramón S. Castillo; Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guiñazú; onetime Argentine Ambassador to Spain Daniel Garcia Mansilla (the presiding dignitary); the Most Rev. Roberto José Tavella, Archbishop of Salta; and Spanish Ambassador to Argentina, Admiral Antonio Magaz y Pers, Marquis of Magaz. They convened as the first Congress of Hispano-American Culture...
...Onetime President General Augustin P. Justo's offer to serve in the Brazilian Army, which promptly made him an honorary brigadier general (TIME, Sept. 7), was wildly popular among the Argentines. It embarrassed President Castillo as Teddy Roosevelt once embarrassed neutral Woodrow Wilson by proposing to fight for Belgium. This week General Justo flew to Rio in the private plane of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas as guest of honor for the Brazilian national holiday. At Santos Dumont Airfield he got a roaring welcome from 30,000 Brazilians. All this raised General Justo's chances of succeeding...
...Castillo Government, which has never concealed its sympathy with Spain's hotly pro-Axis Falange, was highly embarrassed when Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco ousted Ramón Serrano Suñer, head of the Falangists, from the Spanish Government (see p. 24). This lessened the propaganda value of Argentina's new trade treaty with Spain, signed last week...
President Castillo last week received 14 albums said to contain a million Argentine signatures approving his policy. He himself reaffirmed it. But he was plainly worried about its effect both at home and among his South American neighbors. He had arranged various policy-defending junkets. His Minister of War, General Juan N. Tonazzi, had gone to Paraguay. A military mission headed by Inspector General Martin Gras was about to leave for Peru. President Castillo, himself this week planned to meet Bolivia's President General Enrique Peñaranda at the Bolivian border. But it was the Brazilian junket...