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...freezing in Buenos Aires last week, but no colder than the chances that Argentina would act against the Axis: > Liberal, hemisphere-minded President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, after two years of increasing blindness from diabetes, at last resigned his office. This left the job to conservative Acting President Ramon S (for nothing) Castillo, whose neutrality quivers with Axis-sounding overtones...
Leader Wanted. At week's end, when the Argentine Senate, predominantly conservative, accepted President Ortiz' resignation, Argentine liberals knew that he could have given them at best only a very sick man's leadership. The New York eye specialist, Dr. Ramon Castroviejo, had flown home, explaining that, while he had been willing to operate, the President's own doctors had advised against...
...Buenos Aires airport, Dr. Castroviejo stepped out of the plane into an acute embarrassment, Dr. Ramon Cas-troviejo, a native of Castile, Spain, and now a citizen of the U.S., is a crack eye surgeon from Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Argentina's President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz is almost blind. The doctor's embarrassment was caused by the crowd at the airfield, who put two & two together...
...prevent much. A 16-insulin-unit-per-day diabetic, with one eye permanently blind, the other four-fifths blacked out by diabetic cataract, he cannot control, but will not let go of, Argentine politics. The much he can prevent is a unanimous Government-bloc support to Acting President Ramon S. Castillo's policy of refusing belligerent collaboration with the Allies. Between President Ortiz and ex-President Agustin P. Justo, Argentine pro-war groups flutter uncertainly in search of leadership...
...English to be a son of a whore." Editor Osés never stayed long in jail. When impetuous police raided Pampero's office last fall, Acting President Castillo promised that Pampero would be "unmolested, uncontrolled and the publication and distribution uninterrupted." Pampero could perhaps still count on Ramon Castillo's sympathies. But even the efficient Germans can't publish a paper on sympathy sans cash...