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Fiery, Fascist-hating Raul Damonte Taborda was really in a pickle last week. The man who as chairman of Argentina's "Dies Committee" exposed the Fascist fifth column in his country (TIME, Sept. 22, 1941), who later, as editor of the pro-Allied Critica, pounded the neutrality policy of the Castillo Government and its successor, was wanted by the police of President Pedro Ramirez and wanted badly. For a week he had not slept at home. Now, with an order out for his arrest, he had found temporary sanctuary in the Uruguayan embassy in Buenos Aires. How long...
...trouble could be traced to President Rios' cousin, counselor and close friend, Interior Minister Raul Morales Beltrami, who would automatically become acting president during the President's absence. Dr. Morales' ambition and aggressive youth (36) had rubbed many of his colleagues the wrong way. Feeling against him mounted over the prospect that he would run the country temporarily...
...White House last week went tall, brooding Dr. Raul Morales Beltrami, who, as Chile's Minister of the Interior, holds the second-highest political office in one of the only two Latin American countries which have not as yet broken relations with the Axis. What he and Franklin Roosevelt discussed was their own secret. Yet observers in North and South America were sure that the visit presaged an early move by Chile toward complete partnership in the United Nations...
...Chamber of Deputies, Socialist Mario Bravo orated for some 90 minutes: "Argentina was always a leading nation. Today we are almost out-counted in the list of American nations . . . [but] there will be a revolution. The causes of revolution are already latent." Radical Deputy Raul Damonte Taborda, bitter enemy of the Axis fifth column in Argentina, joined with Bravo, and together their two parties forced through the Chamber resolutions demanding: 1) a diplomatic break with the Axis (67-to-64); 2) fulfillment of hemispheric accords reached at the Rio de Janeiro conference in January...
...Mayor Raul García Menocal y Seva of Havana was welcomed to Washington, but nobody could find the customary key-to-the-city to give to him. Discovery: the stock of keys (brass) had been exhausted, and priorities had delayed replacements...