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Champion Lost was the nation's outstanding liberal. Roberto M. Ortiz, who last month, after two politically impotent years of diabetic near-blindness, resigned the presidency to Acting President Castillo (TIME, July 6). Twenty days later, struck also with influenza and bronchopneumonia. Ortiz died. Thus passed the man who had been elected in 1938 by the largest popular vote in the nation's history...
Kindly, double-chinned Roberto Ortiz would have been a rarity anywhere, especially in Latin America: a man who inherited and made wealth (he increased the importing fortune of his Basque father to $4,000,000), yet steered steadily toward democracy. As Argentina's Minister of Public Works and Finance Minister, he showed himself a thoroughgoing, determined people's statesman. But for his sickness, he would undoubtedly have been able to lead Argentina on a Pan-American and anti-Axis course...
When, last week, his body was borne to the grave, thousands stood in the rain shouting: "Ortiz! We loved him! Long live democracy!" and demanding that the Castillo regime break with the Axis over the torpedoing of Argentine freighters...
Leader Wanted. At week's end, when the Argentine Senate, predominantly conservative, accepted President Ortiz' resignation, Argentine liberals knew that he could have given them at best only a very sick man's leadership. The New York eye specialist, Dr. Ramon Castroviejo, had flown home, explaining that, while he had been willing to operate, the President's own doctors had advised against...
...resigning, President Ortiz said: "Now I am returning to private life. This .. . will permit me to speak about the others as the others have spoken about me." His great liberal following of the Anti-personalists and Radical Parties had one general hope: if the sick Ortiz was not there to lean on, some equally capable and healthier leader might rise...