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...Arturo Frondizi, who had also balked at voting Castro out of the hemisphere, ran into an ultimatum from his country's powerful and conservative military men. In the end he was forced to make Argentina the 14th hemisphere nation to break diplomatic relations with Cuba...
Traditionally dominant-and conservative-in Argentine politics, the military had made things hot for Frondizi last August when he entertained Cuban Economic Czar "Che" Guevara at a private meeting. Now the three service chiefs, Army Secretary Brigadier General Rosendo M. Fraga, the navy's Rear Admiral Gaston C. Clement and the air force's Brigadier General Jorge Rojas Silveyra, accused Frondizi of "reneging" on his promise to take a firm stand against Cuba. They demanded that he fire his Foreign Minister and break diplomatic relations with Cuba forthwith...
...Frondizi has survived 34 full-scale crises in his 3½ years in office, and seems to have an instinctive sense of how much ballast to throw overboard in order to stay afloat. He conspicuously ordered home his Ambassador to Cuba, and apparently that was enough. But as a large section of Buenos Aires' press continued to deplore Argentina's performance at Punta del Este ("Lamentable," "Deplorable," "We are ashamed"), the military chiefs stood firm. Eventually, Frondizi gave in, or seemed to. In a communiqué he insisted that Argentina was not "breaking solidarity," that it fully agreed...
Next day, possibly to forestall a similar explosion from the left, Argentina's nimble President turned around, in a defiant speech defended Argentina's go-slow approach to the Cuban problem. Frondizi blamed "reactionary sectors" in the U.S. for conspiring with "their direct and indirect agents in Latin American countries to foster insurrection against the national governments which fight for the dignity and independence of their peoples...
Rusk entrusted the delicate task of talking a little firmness into the "soft six" to Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Cárcano. The Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with...