Word: pampero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pampero goes, so usually goes the Nazi fifth column in Argentina. And last week Pampero, biggest openly Nazi newspaper in the Western Hemisphere, stopped publishing. This week it reappeared in reduced format: a single printed sheet folded to make four pages...
...Argentina's pro-Government press, ranging from pontifical La Nación to the Naziphile Pampero, there burgeoned last week a crop of paid advertisements announcing a "Plebiscite of Peace." Its 120 founder-signers, among whom patriotic Nacionalistas were sinisterly mingled with notorious Nazionalistas, invited all-&-sundry to sign a monster "Album of Peace" to be ceremoniously presented to shrewd old Vice-President-in-the-Exercise-of-the-Executive-Power Ramón S. Castillo. Doubtless these publicity shenanigans amused that dry-humored politico; but what really pleased him was the more genuine peace plebiscite of recent congressional elections...
Because the decree forbade publication of "statements affecting the neutrality of the Argentine Republic ... or its friendly relations with other countries," the pro-Axis newspaper Pampero discontinued its anti-U.S. cartoons. But irrepressible Horn carried a social note: "Monday morning von Thermann visited Castillo," embellished the story with a cartoon of Thermann's head on a hog plastered with swastikas...
...Cried El Pampero, Axis propaganda daily operating under a freedom-of-press guarantee from Ramón Castillo: "Action Argentina, the bridgehead of Yankee warmongers in our country, must be dissolved by executive power...
Next day almost all the Buenos Aires press was howling for Castillo's scalp, insisting that the Acting President was hellbent for dictatorship. Only two papers approved the firing: Razón, arch-conservative organ of Castillo's own party, and the Nazi-subsidized Pampero. Ramón Castillo sat tight. If he gets away with ousting the Council, he may decree that December's elections in Buenos Aires Province be held under provincial, instead of Federal, law, thereby insuring a fraudulent victory for his own Conservative Party...