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...wild hunt for "Communists," the Government of President Pedro Ramirez has purged the press, literature, labor, social clubs, officialdom. Last week it reached out to clean up art. Police sought out Antonio Berni, recipient of this year's National Prize for Painting, the nation's highest honor to its artists, forbade him to accept the prize because he was a "Communist...
...proud and prejudiced Argentina the cankerous issue of neutrality broke out again last week. For the second time war and peace hung delicately in the balance -more delicately even than at the time of the revolt which put the Army and President Pedro Ramirez in power and "prudently neutral" ex-President Ramón Castillo in the discard (TIME, June 14). For this time the showdown was clearly between the "rupturists" and "anti-rupturists" in the Ramirez Government...
...chairman of Argentina's "Dies Committee" exposed the Fascist fifth column in his country (TIME, Sept. 22, 1941), who later, as editor of the pro-Allied Critica, pounded the neutrality policy of the Castillo Government and its successor, was wanted by the police of President Pedro Ramirez and wanted badly. For a week he had not slept at home. Now, with an order out for his arrest, he had found temporary sanctuary in the Uruguayan embassy in Buenos Aires. How long he could stay there, none knew...
Dour, puritanical President Pedro Ramirez had signed his 7,240th decree since taking office (TIME, June 14) and was still going strong. His Government was efficient as all get-out, but it was channeling Argentine lives into a path of righteousness and cultural uplift as they had never been channeled before...
After two months of military government President Pedro Ramirez and his Cabinet of generals and admirals last week met and solemnly decided what Argentina needed most: a good Red Hunt...