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...ornate Paz family crypt in Buenos Aires' comfortable La Recoleta cemetery, honors came thick last week to the late José Clemente Paz, founder of Argentina's La Prensa. The Argentine Government issued a special commemorative postage stamp. Nationwide collections were taken to erect a monument. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a laudatory cable, as did many another foreign notable. It was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Argentina's most famous journalist...
Champion Found. As the sick, tired voice of Ortiz was stilled, another liberal spoke out. In defiance of the state of siege thousands of copies were privately circulated of a book called Campo Minado (Minefield) by Adolfo Lanus, editorialist of Argentina's great democratic daily La Prensa. Onetime Deputy and member of the Chamber's committee investigating anti-Argentine activities, Editor Lanus knows his country behind-the-scenes...
...U.S.Argentine beef problem. He also discusses such things as why Buenos Aires busses are called mata gent es (man-killers) and their drivers, asesinos (assassins); why Argentina has two Presidents (Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, Dr. Ramon Castillo); why Buenos Aires has two of the world's best newspapers (La Prensa and La Nation); what Argentines think about World War II; what they are doing about their "powerful and dangerous" Fifth Column; why they say: "When the United States talks about bases it is like stamping on every finger of our two hands." Brazil, on the other hand, is overwhelmingly...
...Nazi activities. Promised was a fuller report on Ambassador von Thermann, containing evidence that he received money from ostensible German "welfare" agencies, that he used the money for ends "foreign to his diplomatic character." As the four most influential newspapers in Buenos Aires (La Nación, La Prensa, El Mundo, Critica) issued a simultaneous demand that Acting President RamÓn S. Castillo scrap his policy of neutrality, it looked as if Ambassador von Thermann would soon pack his trunks...
Before the Argentine Foreign Office made any reply, La Prensa, great Argentine daily, declared: "If the Argentine Government heeds this German protest, we'd be accountable for printing such news as Secretary of War Stimson's [Navy convoy] speech...