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...freezing in Buenos Aires last week, but no colder than the chances that Argentina would act against the Axis: > Liberal, hemisphere-minded President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, after two years of increasing blindness from diabetes, at last resigned his office. This left the job to conservative Acting President Ramon S (for nothing) Castillo, whose neutrality quivers with Axis-sounding overtones...
...Fernando Ortiz Rubio, playboy son of rich ex-President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was back in the clink again last week under the fanciest charge...
Maudlin affection nourished: tall, hulking Fernando Ortiz Rubio threw himself on Governor Zárate's neck, kissed his hand, blubbered: "You have been a real father to me." Then the conversation turned to futurismo. In Mexico futurismo is no esoteric art-cult; it is the highly practical question of who is going to succeed whom in political office. Only seven months in his job, Governor Zárate thought the choice of topic indelicate. He moved resentfully over to the bar. Equally hurt, Fernando followed him, relieved his offended feelings by drawing his pistol on his political papa...
...then vaulted the garden wall of the widow of the man he had killed and set about earnestly serenading her. He was finally collected, plopped back into jail under an additional charge of trespassing. Senor Rodriguez further announced that, in addition to serenading the woman he had widowed, Fernando Ortiz Rubio had written "improper expressions" on the wall of her house...
...Castroviejo can resuscitate Ortiz as a political force, he will indeed have proved himself the genuine miracle man the pro-war press terms him. His miracle will have been twofold: to save a vision generally considered lost to diabetes, to rescue a national policy in danger of being lost to stubborn neutrality...