Word: pampero
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...should go to war with Japan. Argentine newspapers were enthusiastic, but most of them forgot their enthusiasm when they learned that in Washington the House Appropriations Committee had refused to buy Argentine corned beef for the Navy. Only opposition to the Act itself came from the Nazi organs, El Pampero and Crisol. Croaked Crisol: "The Colossus from the North...
...your Feb. 17 issue, under the heading "Wild Bill's Troubles," you state that El Pampero charged that Colonel Donovan was drunk . . . in connection with his mission in Sofia...
...loss of his wallet was correctly reported in the Feb. 3 issue. In its Feb. 17 issue TIME merely tried to show how a rabid pro-Axis newspaper dishes out "news," neither intending nor believing that any TIME reader would give any credence whatever to blatantly Nazi El Pampero's tale...
Under the heading "Dithyrambic With Key" El Pampero had printed a harmless lampoon of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But the first letter of each line, joined in descending order, spelled out the less harmless acrostic: Hay que ser inglés para ser hijo de puta (One must be English to be a son of a whore). Within 72 hours Osés was indicted for obscenity and the trial date set. That night, on the fashionable Calle Florida, youthful mem bers of the newly formed, patriotic Action Argentina patrolled the sidewalks, seized and burned copies of El Pampero...
...Pampero's blatant propaganda was merely annoying to most Argentines. They were more worried by reports seeping back from Misiones Territory in the north. For half a century Germans have talked intermittently of political and military as well as economic penetration in South America. And last week Argentines remembered that Adolf Hitler said: "We shall create a new Germany there. We shall find everything we need there...