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...Buenos Aires last week, but no colder than the chances that Argentina would act against the Axis: > Liberal, hemisphere-minded President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, after two years of increasing blindness from diabetes, at last resigned his office. This left the job to conservative Acting President Ramon S (for nothing) Castillo, whose neutrality quivers with Axis-sounding overtones...
...months before the conference, the Castillo government ordered the deportation or imprisonment of 27 Argentines and 32 foreigners, whom it accused of Communism, because they favored aid to the Soviet Union; closed newspapers and publishing houses of similar tendencies. A lower-court decision, later reversed, ordered the children taken away from two parents who once attended a Communist meeting...
...democracy rolled back a sneak offensive of Argentina and totalitarianism last week. The occasion: a conference on "Coordination of Police & Judicial Measures," called to implement resolutions of the Rio Conference. The scene: the hall of Buenos Aires' democratically elected Municipal Council, which the Castillo regime had removed (TIME, Oct. 20) and replaced by hand-picked stooges...
...station they were met by an elegant chef de protocole, who led the way to a commemorative plaque. After allowing Acting President Castillo a couple of tugs which failed to untwitch the covering, the officious chef de protocole unveiled the plaque with a jerk. Next he ordered photographs to be posed, driving Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello in & out of pictures until the Cardinal was hopelessly confused. When Vice Admiral Mario Fincati, Minister of Marine, was missing at the moment he should have signed, the chef de protocole peremptorily shouted: "Fincati! Fincati! Where's Fincati?-and sent dignified, elderly...
...formal luncheon, Acting President Castillo privately inquired of his neighbor: "Who is the chef de protocole?" He was told: "A friend of Moreno." Equally puzzled Governor Moreno, making an identical inquiry, was reassured: "He is a friend of Castillo...