Word: castillos
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...militant, pro-British Acción Argentina as public demonstrations of "adherence to the American front" and "faith in the ultimate victory of democracy." On the eve of the meetings, expected to turn out 100,000 people in Buenos Aires alone, Acting President Ramón S. Castillo decreed that the "attitude of Acción Argentina is contrary to the neutrality declared by the Argentine Government and to the dignity of the Argentine nation...
When the Governor of Entre Ríos Province, Enrique Mihura, entered a vigorous protest, Acting President Castillo made his position even clearer...
...telling a political rally at the resort town of Tigre that Ramón Castillo abridged the rights of the people in banning the Acción meetings, José Carlos Vidal, Radical Party campaign speaker, was arrested, charged with disrespect to the Government. Police moved in on the meeting with clubs and warning pistol shots in the air, snipped the wires of the public-address system...
Cried El Pampero, Axis propaganda daily operating under a freedom-of-press guarantee from Ramón Castillo: "Action Argentina, the bridgehead of Yankee warmongers in our country, must be dissolved by executive power...
Before the 90 days were up, Acting President Ramon S. Castillo decided that the guests at the Hotel de Inmigrantes would have to leave. By this time they all had Paraguayan visas, but they were not permitted even to walk across the city to the river boat for Paraguay. Instead they were bundled aboard another of the "whited sepulchers,'' the Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn). Before the ship sailed one of the refugees killed himself...