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Nevertheless, the repressive, reactionary government of Argentina, which is economically as well as governmentally inclined to align itself with the New Order, is playing the lone wolf. Ramon Castillo, with his autocratic inclinations and his Axis-minded military pals, is unlikely to come around to a cooperative point of view. Nazi pressure, which is reported to have taken the form of a direct note promising retribution and economic ruin for any nation which has not "behaved discreetly" at Rio, has more influence in the Pink House than in any other Latin American capitol. As long as United States beef interests...
Another hope remains an ever-present possibility--the overturning of the Castillo regime. Barely legal, opposed by a more legitimate president, a rebellious Chamber of Deputies, and eighty-five per cent of the people, Castillo is riding for a fall. Since the last week in December the country has been in a state of siege. A severe censorship has hit not only the newspapers, which have several times appeared with blank editorial pages, but also the foreign correspondents and press services. The Administration has set the stage for some sort of violence, and the Rio conference may raise the curtain...
Governed under "state-of-siege" orders by Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, on lines of thinking geared to those of Senator Burton Wheeler before Pearl Harbor, Argentina acted with Delphic ambiguity last week, secretly instructed its delegates to act "in accordance with the principles which Argentina has always upheld in its international policies." But Argentina moved closer toward collaboration by "recalling" her Ambassador from Berlin, and announced that Germany had recalled Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann,* whose persona has long been non grata with Argentina's pro-Ally Chamber of Deputies...
Never considered necessary in World War I, the state of siege raised suspicion among the Acting President's Radical (liberal) opposition that Ramon Castillo was using the war to entrench his Conservative clique more firmly in power. This suspicion was strengthened by Castillo's cancellation of a great pro-Ally mass meeting scheduled to be held in Luna Park. Sponsors, the pro-British Accion Argentina and Buenos Aires' most respected citizens, had expected that 50,000 people would turn out to cheer as U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour read a message from President Roosevelt...
...Ramon Castillo regretfully explained that his decree affected all nations and sympathies alike. No doubt he hoped the U.S. would remember his friendly gesture of declaring the U.S. a nonbelligerent. His suggestion that President Roosevelt's message be broadcast by radio was turned down by the meeting's sponsors...