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Evidence of this same enthusiasm for a TIME-produced English-teaching radio program greeted TIME'S Circulation Director, Francis Pratt, wherever he went in Central and South America last spring - and Mexico's Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera assured us that such a program would "meet with complete success not only in Mexico but throughout Latin America"-because "one of the best ways for the peoples of this hemisphere to strengthen their solidarity is through learning each other's language...
...fools. They are a smart, proud people. Most of them are for the Allies-from a distance. Most of them honestly think that their country can stay neutral and survive. That is one reason why they did not oppose the "prudent neutrality" of ex-President Ramon S. Castillo more than they did, why for a long time they had no serious misgivings about the stubborn neutrality of President Pedro Ramirez. But last week their misgivings were serious. Obviously, their Government was in a crisis; just as obviously, it was in confusion...
...sober Argentines, it seemed that one of two things was about to happen: either the Government of President Pedro Ramirez would break with the Axis soon, or it would be overthrown. This time, unlike the coup which ousted the Castillo Government last June, revolution might be bloody...
Lightly held in his big fingers was a check for $1,500,000 that had not yet quite left the hand of Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Francisco Castillo Nájera (see cut). In the heart which other oilmen think pumps oil instead of blood, was the knowledge that once again Sinclair Oil Corp. had struck a gusher while the rest of the industry struck rock...
...hating Raul Damonte Taborda was really in a pickle last week. The man who as chairman of Argentina's "Dies Committee" exposed the Fascist fifth column in his country (TIME, Sept. 22, 1941), who later, as editor of the pro-Allied Critica, pounded the neutrality policy of the Castillo Government and its successor, was wanted by the police of President Pedro Ramirez and wanted badly. For a week he had not slept at home. Now, with an order out for his arrest, he had found temporary sanctuary in the Uruguayan embassy in Buenos Aires. How long he could stay...