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...week's end, Acting President Castillo offered to put discussion of the frauds on the Congressional agenda, a step which would produce nothing but more wind. From his sickbed half-blind President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz advised the Radicals to collaborate with the Government and a Radical Deputy resigned his seat in protest. As the Ship of State veered sharply toward the shallows Juan Pueblo thought he saw on the tiller the crafty hand of onetime President General Agustín P. Justo, the only other man in Argentina with a plan...
...they were used to winning by such practices as quarantining entire districts, placing voting booths in trucks which stopped only for Conservative voters, incapacitating opposition pollwatchers by sneaking laxatives into their food. But once settled in the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House, which is pink), President Ortiz brought down the wrath of his Conservative supporters by taking his platform seriously. Honest elections might have perpetuated the Radicals in power if he had not had to leave the Pink House in ill health...
...Zorro." If & when Ortiz' health forces the President's permanent retirement, control will pass to the man who stepped in as Acting President, a shrewd, hardbitten, 67-year-old Conservative politico whose nickname, El Zorro, means "The Fox." Ramón Castillo (pronounced castíjo) became Vice President as a compromise candidate on Roberto Ortiz' ticket. When the President broke with the Conservatives and became the rallying point of Radical strength, Conservative strength gathered around Castillo and ex-President Justo. The Acting Presidency has given El Zorro a further chance to consolidate that strength...
...next largest number, 42, will be cast by the Province of Santa Fe. Fortnight ago Argentines went to the polls in Santa Fe, to elect a Governor who as a matter of practical politics will control the choice of those 42 electors. When the polls closed, everybody thought the Ortiz candidate had won an easy victory. But a few hours later the Conservative-controlled election board announced the victory of the Castillo-Justo candidate...
Though the Province of Santa Fe broke out into a rash of angry rioting and gun fights, though the Ministry of Interior was swamped with protests, Castillo sat tight, the first round safely his. Ortiz, instead of sending a Federal interventor to insure an honest election as he did last March in Buenos Aires, sat tight too. If the Conservatives can repeat this week in the Mendoza elections, they will pick nearly enough electors to insure victory in 1943. If Ortiz lets them, the fight will be over...