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This time the quarrel was between a portion of Argentina's factious military, who control the government, and the hapless civilians who serve them. In an angry, 2,500-word memo to his colleagues in the armed forces. General Enrique Rauch, who took over last month as Interior Minister, attacked the whole shaky structure of Argentina's government, from the ministries on down. In Rauch's view, the handling of economic policy was inept, numerous shysters from the Frondizi regime still infested top ranks of government, public opinion was misinformed, and scores of "economic criminals" were conspiring...
...raft of new reforms before the July 7 elections. Instead of compromise and cooperation, today's Argentina seems only to invite collisions of extremes. As one Argentine sociologist put it: "There is no community in Argentina. We form a conglomeration. Instead of life, Argentina has rancorous, factious chaos, periodically illuminated by coups...
...meaning was plain: "The widespread reaction of aversion on the part of the governments and of public opinion in the very nations in which occurred these reprovable acts against the serene and courageous person of the Vice President constitutes a proof that such demonstrations proceeded from a factious minority. Nonetheless, it would be hardly feasible to conceal the fact that, before world public opinion, the ideal of Pan American unity has suffered serious impairment . . . In addressing these words to Your Excellency, my sole purpose is to acquaint you with my deep-seated conviction that something must be done to restore...
...declining to join, however, the conservatives have considerably clarified the situation, for the committee and for the liberals in the Senate. Were Johnson and Rayburn to serve on the committee, they could easily keep it from reaching any constructive positions by dilatory and factious tactics. Now the committee can serve as an important pressure group. True, Stevenson, Truman and Mrs. Roosevelt have neither votes nor patronage to dispense, but their views have considerable influence on uncommitted Democrats. With an effective research staff they could form a useful liberal voice of national prestige, with the wide respect that Americans for Democratic...
Tall, temperate General Dusan Simovich saw that his nation had reached a decisive hour. In March 1941 he had led Yugoslavia in the historic, hopeless revolt against Nazi domination. Now, from exile in London, he broke a long silence, urged his factious countrymen to unite under the Liberation banner of fighting Marshal Tito. Exhorted Dusan Simovich...