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Reason for TIME'S exclusion: heavyhanded, stubborn Argentine President Pedro Pablo Ramirez objected to recent TIME reports on Argentina, particularly on her pro-Fascist foreign policy...
...Mercurio also quoted President Ramirez: "The great majority of Argentines are in favor of a democratic victory, but that does not mean that they are rupturists [i.e., in favor of breaking with Germany]. The sentiment of Argentina is Catholic. Catholic propaganda is of peace and love toward nations. . . . The present policy [neutrality] will be maintained until external circumstances indicate convenience to modify...
Argentines knew, and President Ramirez knew, that these were the words of a President who had become a figurehead. El Mercurio put the spotlight on Argentina's real leadership-the Army clique behind Ramirez. It said: "If the tide flows on as now and if there are not international complications, Colonel Perón can be, in a short time, the upmost Caudillo of the Argentine Republic...
...side: the extreme nationalists, weak in numbers, strong in Army and police support, controlling the Government, determined to push an antiSemitic, antilabor, anti-liberal domestic program. On the opposing side: practically all other Argentines, including disgruntled Navy and Army officers; wealthy landowners and industrialists who dislike the Ramirez Government's rent and price controls; labor unions, whose leaders have been arrested wholesale; students and liberals, who are alarmed over the suppression of civil rights...
...turmoil did not necessarily mean revolution, though anything could happen. Argentines speculated that General Ramirez might give way as President to such extremist colleagues as Colonel Juan Peron, handsome, astute, ruthless Under Secretary of War and head of the Government's Labor Department; or to General Edelmiro Farrell, Irish-faced, hard-boiled Vice President...