Word: critica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiery, Fascist-hating Raul Damonte Taborda was really in a pickle last week. The man who as chairman of Argentina's "Dies Committee" exposed the Fascist fifth column in his country (TIME, Sept. 22, 1941), who later, as editor of the pro-Allied Critica, pounded the neutrality policy of the Castillo Government and its successor, was wanted by the police of President Pedro Ramirez and wanted badly. For a week he had not slept at home. Now, with an order out for his arrest, he had found temporary sanctuary in the Uruguayan embassy in Buenos Aires. How long...
...Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer declared invalid the emergency statute under which Mohandas K. Gandhi and 8,000 lesser All-India Congress leaders had been detained since last August. The Raj was unruffled. Technically the Viceroy accepted the judgment, but he refused to release edition of the newspaper Critica was suppressed for carrying an attack on Castillo and an appeal for speed in realizing hemisphere cooperation...
...away from Chamber sessions to a small dark office in Socialist Party headquarters, swivels before a chaotic desk, attends to the business of paper and party, talks to his friends, licks his pencil and turns out opposition editorials so ironic, incisive and adroit that even his enemies read them. Critica, nearest in spirit to good American newspapers, is a hard-hitting sheet with several editions; in its city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers and not one ad salesman, does not hesitate to criticize the government or anybody...
Hard-hitting Critica, pro-democratic evening newspaper in Buenos Aires, quoted a Chinese proverb: "It is more dangerous to shut the mouth of the people than to change the bed of a river." Last week the regime of President Ramon S. Castillo...
...Promised was a fuller report on Ambassador von Thermann, containing evidence that he received money from ostensible German "welfare" agencies, that he used the money for ends "foreign to his diplomatic character." As the four most influential newspapers in Buenos Aires (La Nación, La Prensa, El Mundo, Critica) issued a simultaneous demand that Acting President RamÓn S. Castillo scrap his policy of neutrality, it looked as if Ambassador von Thermann would soon pack his trunks...