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...small house in Buenos Aires' Calle Juncal last week a bustling blonde housekeeper dusted provincial furniture, straightened somber religious pictures, made an old-fashioned brass bed. Icy rains had brought autumn to Argentina, and the master of the house in the Calle Juncal, Ramon S. Castillo, was moving in from his suburban quinta in Martinez beside the Rio de la Plata. In the domed Palacio del Congreso, Acting President Castillo's political housekeepers were similarly occupied. They swept out the debris of one of the most extraordinary sessions any legislative body had ever held, made ready...
...decided to seize ships. Argentina had not yet decided to yield bases for hemisphere defense. With not much trust in the good intentions of any great power, Germany, Britain or the U.S., Argentina was trying to be neutral in an almost totally unneutral world. Acting President Castillo said so again last week: "Argentina will continue to maintain neutrality in the European war." It was significant that the No. 1 Argentine should refer to the World War as European. Replied U.S. Ambassador Nor man Armour (in a speech to the Buenos Aires English Club) : "Between those who destroy...
Ships and Sheep. Turning the problem over in his mind as he sat at his desk in the Casa Rosada,* Ramên Castillo had only to look out of the window to see one miserable aspect of it: Buenos Aires har bor, once South America's busiest port, almost deserted of shipping, with 18 German and Italian vessels lying at anchor as reminders of the pressure on him. Once an average of 150 ships a day put into Buenos Aires. Now there are about 26 a week. Of 400,000 tons of meat which Britain contracted for six months...
What he did not say-what he did not need to say-was that the hemisphere-wide seizure of Axis ships, immediately after the U.S. acted, was a demonstration of coordinated hemisphere solidarity that surpassed any precedent. Two days before, Under Secretary Sumner Welles and Mexican Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera (Hull calls him "Nádgera") signed an agreement permitting the U.S. to use Mexican airfields. The Good Neighbor policy was bearing rich fruit after years of backbreaking cultivation...
Argentina last week still awaited the comeback attempt of ailing President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, while Acting President Ramon S. Castillo moved to make his temporary Government permanent. Of all South American countries Argentina is the most independent-minded (vis-a-vis the U. S.), and at the same time the most pro-British, and so the Ortiz-Castillo feud will have little effect on foreign policy unless it blows up into revolution. But in nearby Uruguay the anti-Government Herrerista-Blanco Party makes hay by opposing U. S. influence. In Paraguay a showdown is brewing between Dictator-President General Higino...