Word: castillo
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...wanted to be a statesman. He seemed to be inclined to get Argentina in accord with the other nations. He could see how the dream shone. But he was not his own master; he was only the servant of Argentina and Argentina's Acting President Ramon S. Castillo...
President Castillo could not see (any better than many men in-the U.S. had been able to see, in the months before Pearl Harbor) that every free country in the world stands in danger. He feared that he and his country might lose some shreds of sovereignty. From Buenos Aires he announced abruptly: "Right or wrong, Argentina will not break relations with Germany, Japan and Italy." The hemisphere dream of unity in action appeared defeated...
...triumph won by the U.S. delegate was nipped by a U.S. ineptitude. In Washington Senator Tom Connally, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, could not resist putting in his two bits' worth about Argentina. Said he: "We are trusting that before this conference is over President Castillo will change his mind, or the Argentine people will change Presidents...
...Short of Rupture. Given a ready-made opportunity to mount a high horse, Acting President Castillo repudiated the proposed declaration. Faithfully, Ruiz Guiñazú proposed a compromise-to change Article III's grammar so that the phrase "cannot continue diplomatic relations . . ." would read "can discontinue diplomatic relations. . . ." Thus Argentina would be released from any anti-Axis commitment...
...heavy works on jurisprudence, Ruiz Guiñazú rose from obscurity to president of the League of Nations Council because Argentina alphabetically led off the member nations. Descendant of an autocratic Spanish family and stubborn stickler for legal details, he is temperamentally simpático with Acting President Castillo but out of tune with popular sentiment. Officially quiet under "state-of-siege" orders, Argentines began the New Year with a spate of "last-time" hilarity, as if they realized there might be significant changes by New Year...