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Corrientes Province (pop. 526,000) is 56% illegitimate and has the highest percentage of illiteracy and tuberculosis in Argentina. But it was not these evils which last week led President Ramón S. Castillo to use the handy Latin American device of a government interventor to replace popularly elected Governor Pedro Numa Soto. President Castillo said administrative scandals forced him to interfere. Actually he usurped control of the political stronghold of pro-Ally General Augustin Justo, who may be his opponent in 1943's Presidential elections...
...patience of tall, cool Sumner Welles suddenly ran out. For months the State Department had politely nudged the governments of Argentina and Chile, reminding them of hemispheric unity. But Argentina, under isolationist President Ramón S. Castillo, stayed stubbornly unregenerate. And Chile, under veteran politico President Juan Antonio Rios, kept coy. They, alone of all the Americas, refused to break relations with the Axis...
Hemispheric Cooperation: To enliven the routine task of a Washington news photographer covering the wedding of Lieut. Francisco Castillo Najera, son of the Mexican Ambassador, and Seńorita Alicia Calvillo of Mexico City, the groom swept his bride off her feet, staged a rare tableau of best-dressed romance (see cut). Animal Fair: Some 2,000 dogs which will do Coast Guard shore patrol work went into training on the estate of Joseph E. Widener, multimillionaire Philadelphia art patron and horse breeder. Into the Army for training went Gogo and Cliquot, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson's Fighting...
President Castillo's answer was to "take note" of the resolutions and brush them off the next day by pointing out that under the Argentine federal system questions of foreign policy are the concern of the executive branch. Then the Congress adjourned until...
Under Argentine law a President is ineligible to succeed himself. But Argentines suspect that because Castillo came to office through a vacancy and not by a vote (TIME, July 6) he will claim the right to stand for election in 1943. It would be a neat trick and, the way ballots are counted in Argentina, it might work...