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...then repents course 1, but is valuable for further Spanish courses. In Spanish 8, a second half year course, Professor Rivera has produced a course in which each student is forced to learn to talk, and which is at the same time interesting. Students subscribe to La Prensa, a New York Spanish newspaper, and discuss articles of current interest...
Since no Argentine from the President down could have taken a step more likely to discredit Argentina than the promulgation of this decree, intelligent Argentines were left gasping in amazement. The highly literate and weighty newsorgans La Prensa and La Nation, models of Latin journalism and traditional adversaries on almost every issue, united for once and for three days printed editorials hurling against President Justo every weapon of argument, deprecation, criticism, sarcasm, invective and ridicule. They added that the decree flatly violates the Argentine Constitution's pledge of freedom of the press...
...Government departments kept mum. Mexico City newsorgans played down any mention as "rumor," except La Prensa which appeared with the screamer "ARCHBISHOP DISAPPEARED." After a long night and day of mystery he reappeared...
Nothing could have surprised Minister Saavedra Lamas more than what happened next. Far from sympathetic, the Argentine Press turned savagely on him. La Prensa ridiculed the logic as well as the law for such a suit as he proposed: "No reputation has suffered. . . . On the other hand, an important advance has been made in exposing one of the chief factors which leads to the crime...
Beyond dispute La Prensa is the leading newspaper in South America, is read throughout the continent. Sternly independent, it truckles to no political party, even refuses to accept political advertising on the ground that if any politician is really as good as he claims, he is legitimate news and will be reported accordingly...