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Argentina's internal political turmoil was blanketed under a state of siege suddenly ordered by Acting President Ramon S. Castillo. "I wish that no one speak ill of anyone," he said...
...decree, suspending Article 14 of Argentina's Constitution (patterned after the U.S. Bill of Rights), gave Acting President Castillo unchallenged power to prohibit meetings, suppress newspapers, order arrests-but not to inflict punishment...
First guesses were that Castillo would use his new powers to strangle the tendentious German Transocean News Service, to stomp out Nazi propaganda agents. But German Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, whose deportation was asked three months ago by the Chamber of Deputies, continued as active as ever. Two henchmen representing the Federation of German Cultural & Beneficent Societies turned Castillo's "speak-no-evil" policy to their own advantage, refused to testify before Deputy Raúl Damonte Taborda's "Dies Committee" on the spending of more than $4,000,000 during the past year...
Because the decree forbade publication of "statements affecting the neutrality of the Argentine Republic ... or its friendly relations with other countries," the pro-Axis newspaper Pampero discontinued its anti-U.S. cartoons. But irrepressible Horn carried a social note: "Monday morning von Thermann visited Castillo," embellished the story with a cartoon of Thermann's head on a hog plastered with swastikas...
...Government of Conservative President Ramón S. Castillo impartially banned meetings of the pro-British Acción Argentina, the left-wing Forja and nationalist groups. Police fueled planes to rush reinforcements wherever needed...