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...late autumn sun spread a dull sheen over the refuse-strewn waters of the Plata River. Slowly the small, grey minesweeper Drummond nudged against a deserted wharf. Down the gangway stepped a tired, disheveled, stubborn old man, Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, Vice President of Argentina from 1938 to 1940, Acting President from 1940 to 1942, President from 1942 until last week, President in Exile for one day, now ex-President...
...President Castillo gave orders to defend the city. But when the troops marched in the police made it clear that they were acting "to maintain order only" -there was no resistance from them. By 10 o'clock, the President had fled his residence for the safety of the Drummond, where he stayed until the excitement was over. By 3 o'clock the machine guns at the Casa Rosada had disappeared; two hours later General Rawson spoke from its balcony to the people, explained the coup as a "defense revolution...
Editor Canham writes occasional editorials but mainly keeps a hand on his paper's excellent foreign and U.S. correspondents - men and women like Wash ington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond and War Correspondent Edmund Stevens...
Ever since Wendell Willkie returned from the Far East burning with advice and criticism for the Administration (TIME, Nov. 2), political insiders have known that he and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were at the parting of the ways. Last week the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond put the open secret into print-with a sage analysis of the causes and likely effects...
Said White House Correspondent Drummond...