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...further concession to local and foreign pressure, the Argentine Government had already announced that it would free its political prisoners. It actually freed some 265. Invited back from exile in Montevideo was Argentina's revered elder statesman, walrus-mustached Alfredo Palacios, a vigorous antifascist, to resume his old job as president of La Plata University...
...Mexico City for two years, then to Argentina. There he followed his old, pleasant habits. Only once did one of his articles offend: last August the Argentine Government jailed him for eleven hours, but (he wrote) "throughout . . . treated [me] with courtesy." Other foreign correspondents sneaked stories out (via Montevideo) about the oppressions of Argentine dictatorship. Reporter Cortesi argued urbanely with Argentine censors-but never once tried to by-pass them. Then, suddenly, fortnight ago, the glowworm turned...
Cortesi's expose, and the furore it caused in diplomatic circles all the way to the San Francisco Conference, were a shot in the arm for the thousands of exiles across the La Plata River in Montevideo. They had long waited for the world to wake up to what was going on in Argentina. Their hopes soared...
Many Argentines are inclined to be contemptuous of the oppositionists who thunder at the Government from safety across the river in Montevideo. They admire Aguirre Cámara for remaining in Argentina. Last week the police had not caught him yet. When they questioned his mother, she drew herself up proudly. "Go ahead and look for him," she said. "You won't find him. I've put him in the hands of God, who knows he is fighting for the salvation of his country...
...Anti-Nazi Publications for Clandestine Distribution," printed by the Under-ground working from Montevideo, constitute the secondary exhibit and have unusual significance as a result of recent friction between American and Argentine State Departments...