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...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...
Boxing and wrestling bouts will start off the program, and the respective teams, are to be chosen by Tom Rawson and George Meyerson for the Army and Henry Lamar and Chief Morton for the Navy. The swimming teams for both outfits are to be chosen by Hal Ulen. The Army courtmen are to be handled by Adolph Samborski and the Navy outfit by Varsity mentor Floyd Stahl...
...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...
...Entre Rios Province. He was grandson of a farmer, son of the chief of police. There he played and fought with Saba and Benito Sueyro, today the Vice President and Minister of Marine respectively. Later, in military school in Buenos Aires, a close friend was Arturo Rawson, the two-day President. As a young lieutenant, Palito was sent to learn with Kaiser Wilhelm's 5th Hussars. Well trained, Lieut. Ramirez returned home, devoted himself to rising via captain and colonel to general and Minister of War. In 1930 he made a name for himself in the last generals...
...there was no resistance from them. By 10 o'clock, the President had fled his residence for the safety of the Drummond, where he stayed until the excitement was over. By 3 o'clock the machine guns at the Casa Rosada had disappeared; two hours later General Rawson spoke from its balcony to the people, explained the coup as a "defense revolution...