Word: castillo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last December handsome, dictatorial Ramón S. (for Nothing) Castillo imposed on neutral Argentina a "state of siege7' forbidding the public discussion of international affairs. Last week Argentine free speech both lost and found a champion...
Champion Lost was the nation's outstanding liberal. Roberto M. Ortiz, who last month, after two politically impotent years of diabetic near-blindness, resigned the presidency to Acting President Castillo (TIME, July 6). Twenty days later, struck also with influenza and bronchopneumonia. Ortiz died. Thus passed the man who had been elected in 1938 by the largest popular vote in the nation's history...
When, last week, his body was borne to the grave, thousands stood in the rain shouting: "Ortiz! We loved him! Long live democracy!" and demanding that the Castillo regime break with the Axis over the torpedoing of Argentine freighters...
Neutrals, as well as belligerents, can be either firm or flabby. Last week the neutral Argentine Government of suave, reactionary President Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo treated Germany with all the firmness of orange marmalade...
Behind Argentina's boneless neutrality, observers continued to read the Castillo. Government's fear that one more bungled German sinking of an Argentine ship would arouse to fever pitch that large part of the Argentine public which, unlike President Castillo, would gladly repudiate German designs on the Western Hemisphere...