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...imperious autocrat of Argentina's intellectual life is a woman. Now 54, tall, tailored Victoria Ocampo has been her country's acknowledged "Queen of Letters" for nearly a quarter of a century.* As essayist, she speaks for the old traditions: the French-speaking aristocrat reluctant to cut the cord to Europe. As editor, she speaks for tomorrow: the new and national literature for which Argentina strives...
Only the snobbish, opulent, Paris-loving aristocracy of Argentina could have produced Victoria Ocampo. Her wealth is based on the feudal holdings of her estanciero ancestors. She was educated in Paris, writes in French, then translates into Spanish. She can quote Racine by the yard...
...women of intellectual power have visited Buenos Aires without finding their way to the Ocampo salon. At her Mar del Plata villa, brought beam-by-beam from England, or her San Isidro ancestral home where San Martin once plotted Peru's and Chile's liberation, the high talk proceeds preferably in French. "Since infancy," says Victoria, "in the whispering of Argentine alfalfa and wheat I have heard the sound of French verses...
Satisfactory terms having been arranged, Lieut.-Colonel Gustavo Jimenez announced that one Col. David Samanez Ocampo, "President of the Southern Junta," would proceed from Arequipa to Lima and assume the office of President of Peru (the fourth within six months, the third within a week...