Word: patagonia
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...Sleeper. Most Americans think of malaria as a tropical disease, says Leon J. Warshaw in Malaria: the Biography of a Killer, published this week (Rinehart; $3.75). Actually, says Dr. Warshaw, the disease has struck from the Arctic to Patagonia. Once known as "the shakes," it was rife a century ago throughout most of the U.S. Dr. Warshaw, a New York diagnostician, estimates the number of U.S. sufferers today as high as 4,000,000. But no one knows just how many there are, because malaria is a skilled mimic, imitating the symptoms of other diseases...
...world's most spectacularly homeless group of able young men is General Wladyslaw Anders' 160,000-strong II Polish Corps. They were looking to the New World. Argentina would take 20,000 as farmers and technicians. Site of the proposed settlement: the semi-arid plateaus of Patagonia with their thousands of acres of good sheep land...
...Argentina lived last week, as it had for the past century, in two worlds. One world was the cosmopolitan, factory-packed port of Buenos Aires. The other was the land of rich green pasturage, yellow grainfields and brown, newly-turned earth which stretched west to the Andes, south to Patagonia. It was what Englishmen called the "camp." as vast as the whole of the U.S. east of the Mississippi...
...Opened a new concentration camp in Patagonia, with 84 Communists among the first tenants (on moving day sympathizers made two unsuccessful attempts to stop the prison train...
...investments in the country add up to about $1,500,000,000. The Argentine Government, under Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, has done its best to turn an austerely neutral face to the world. But in spite of several stump-toed Nazi plots (including one for German annexation of Patagonia, uncovered in 1939), the only formal action that Argentina has taken against the Nazis has been to order the Nazi Party dissolved. The Party simply took to cover behind German "cultural" and "welfare" organizations...