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Ever since Argentina's hard-shelled, old-guard conservative politicos combined with a rebellious branch of the Radical Party to put President Ortiz and Vice President Ramon S. Castillo into office in 1938, they had wriggled with impatience...
...Ortiz had quickly repudiated the conservatives, had lined up with the liberal urban politicians of his nominal Radical opposition. Last July diabetes forced Ortiz into temporary retirement. Ultraconservative Castillo became acting Head of State...
...last week and warning lights flashing across the border, strangest reaction was that of the Mexican Government leaders. They were singularly unperturbed. Conditions were "absolutely satisfactory" and "absolute neutrality" was assured, purred usually gruff President Cárdenas. "There are no fifth-column activities in Mexico," snapped Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera in Washington when Chairman Martin Dies of the Dies Committee said he had "incontrovertible information" that German experts had laid out and equipped 26 camouflaged airplane landing fields along the border. Mexicans from President Cárdenas to the poorest peon knew that a fifth column...
...beloved Japanese brother-in-law and at the height of festivities was found dead, "officially" by his own hand. Last month Bolivians went to the polls for the first time since 1931 to elect a President and chose the Army's choice-General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, not too smart politically and "friendly" to the local "interests...
...shuffled down to the room of Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexican Ambassador to the U. S., knocked on the door of that poet-musician. Next day Dr. Najera presented the plan, lined up the suspicious delegates behind the new theory of continental solidarity, which has since had two additions: 1) hemisphere defense, 2) the Pan-American 300-mile safety belt...