Word: ramirez
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...Adrian Escobar arrived in Washington. His reception was the coldest the U.S. has given any high Latin American diplomat since the beginning of the Good Neighbor Policy. Reason: Argentina's authoritarian Government still had to show genuine friendship for the U.S., clean out its anti-democratic elements (President Ramirez prevailed upon three notably pro-Nazi Cabinet members to withdraw their resignations...
...action followed weeks of pressure brought against" Argentina's militaristic, Nazi-tainted Government by the U.S. and Britain. German espionage in Argentina had been newly exposed; there was audible talk of an Anglo-American embargo (TIME, Jan. 31). Obviously, the Ramirez Government saw that the last hour had come; Argentina had to choose between the Allies and the Axis. Precisely because so many friends of the Axis were powerful in the real government behind Ramirez, the choice was not easy...
...before the break, 90 officers of the GOU (Gobierno, Orden, Unidad), the Army clique which has bossed the Government of President Ramirez, were called to a meeting in the Municipal Building. Foreign Minister Alberto Gilbert, hitherto no friend of the U.S., but no fool either, made a brief and urgent speech. The officers listened in frigid silence. Then Gilbert left for the Foreign Office, where he moaned: "I am in the battle of my life...
Small Victory. The United Nations, gained by Argentina's action, but the present Argentine Government also gained. Washed clean of official ties with Nazi Germany, it retains its recognition by the U.S. Thus bolstered, the Ramirez Government might even keep its native authoritarian nationalism and continue to be the infection center of an anti-U.S. bloc in South America...
...there are few signs that the Argentine Government is swinging toward democracy. Three notoriously pro-Nazi Ministers have left the Cabinet, and there is talk of further housecleaning. On the other hand, Arturo Rawson, pro-Ally Ambassador to Brazil, who sent a congratulatory message to President Ramirez, was answered with a stinging rebuke and quit his job. Unless there is a radical change in Buenos Aires, the U.S. and Britain will find themselves in bed with still another technically friendly, fascist-type regime...