Word: justo
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...week led President Ramón S. Castillo to use the handy Latin American device of a government interventor to replace popularly elected Governor Pedro Numa Soto. President Castillo said administrative scandals forced him to interfere. Actually he usurped control of the political stronghold of pro-Ally General Augustin Justo, who may be his opponent in 1943's Presidential elections...
...Onetime President General Augustin P. Justo's offer to serve in the Brazilian Army, which promptly made him an honorary brigadier general (TIME, Sept. 7), was wildly popular among the Argentines. It embarrassed President Castillo as Teddy Roosevelt once embarrassed neutral Woodrow Wilson by proposing to fight for Belgium. This week General Justo flew to Rio in the private plane of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas as guest of honor for the Brazilian national holiday. At Santos Dumont Airfield he got a roaring welcome from 30,000 Brazilians. All this raised General Justo's chances of succeeding...
...Tonazzi, had gone to Paraguay. A military mission headed by Inspector General Martin Gras was about to leave for Peru. President Castillo, himself this week planned to meet Bolivia's President General Enrique Peñaranda at the Bolivian border. But it was the Brazilian junket of General Justo, who wanted to fight the Axis, which was most likely to impress Argentina and South America...
Like Aranha, most Brazilians were feeling comfortably unperturbed, especially about the rest of the South American continent, excepting only Vichyfrench Guiana. All independent South American nations had accorded Brazil nonbelligerent status. Onetime Argentine President General Augustin Justo, who is pro-United Nations and who would like to be a candidate for the presidency in 1943, volunteered for the Brazilian army and was accepted as an honorary brigadier general. From Chile, whose President Juan Antonio Rios will soon visit the U.S., came hints of a break with the Axis before Rios leaves Santiago. If the Axis, as Aranha hinted, had forced...
...tiny town of San Nicolás de los Arroyos traveled the presidential train, complete with what Buenos Aires correspondents nicknamed "the candidates' coach." Aspirants in next year's presidential elections, including longtime Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Jurist Leopoldo Melo, onetime President General Agustin P. Justo and Castillo-favorite Guillermo Rothe, eyed one another warily...