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...first time last week the authoritarian Argentine Government of President Pedro Ramirez faced some active opposition. It came from the group which has traditionally spearheaded popular discontent: the university students...
...honestly think that their country can stay neutral and survive. That is one reason why they did not oppose the "prudent neutrality" of ex-President Ramon S. Castillo more than they did, why for a long time they had no serious misgivings about the stubborn neutrality of President Pedro Ramirez. But last week their misgivings were serious. Obviously, their Government was in a crisis; just as obviously, it was in confusion...
...sober Argentines, it seemed that one of two things was about to happen: either the Government of President Pedro Ramirez would break with the Axis soon, or it would be overthrown. This time, unlike the coup which ousted the Castillo Government last June, revolution might be bloody...
President Ramirez, fronting for the Colonels, had already recalled pro-Allied Ambassador Felipe Espil from Washington (TIME, Oct. 18), other Ambassadors from Mexico City, Vichy and the Vatican. Last week an Army man (War Minister Edelmiro Juan Farrell) was put into the vacant Vice Presidency. The Colonels, fearing a coalition of those who favor a break with the Axis, forced the resignation of three Cabinet Ministers (one of them a leader in the June revolution), saw to it that puppets replaced them. Police closed down all Jewish newspapers, lifted the ban before President Roosevelt had denounced this "obviously antiSemitic" action...
Even the most astute Argentines could not figure out exactly what was happening. Some guessed that President Ramirez, acting on behalf of the Colonels, was preparing to break with Germany and take the credit. Certainly the Colonels and Ramirez had succeeded in alienating almost everyone. An Army group headed by General Arturo Rawson, President in the first days of the June revolution and now Ambassador to Brazil, was gaining in power and advocating a rupture with Germany...