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...which His Majesty's Government could invoke to stop the Argentine Republic from issuing stamps on which the "British" Falkland Islands are described as "Argentine." Replied careful Mr. Eden in writing: "The answer is in the negative." In Buenos Aires next day villainously mustached Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas in effect hissed that if that proud beauty Britannia continues to think the Falkland Islands are hers, that is perfectly all right with him. "In Britain they always maintain that the Islands are theirs, just the same as we always maintain they are ours," explained the Foreign Minister...
Same day Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas cabled his Ambassador in Washington instructions to sue the U. S. Government for reparations for besmirching Argentinians' reputations. Holding that the U. S. Government was responsible for the actions of the Senate committee, he purported to show that a libel had been committed and "moral & mental damage" inflicted. In effect, he demanded that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull discipline Washington's Senator Homer T. Bone for speaking carelessly of Argentina's Admiral Ismael Galindez. Protesting "our friendship for that great nation with which we have recently strengthened...
Nothing could have surprised Minister Saavedra Lamas more than what happened next. Far from sympathetic, the Argentine Press turned savagely on him. La Prensa ridiculed the logic as well as the law for such a suit as he proposed: "No reputation has suffered. . . . On the other hand, an important advance has been made in exposing one of the chief factors which leads to the crime...
Meanwhile in Washington Secretary Hull was politely explaining to Argentine Ambassador Felipe Espil what an invulnerable personage a U. S. Senator is, how far above "disciplining" by the State Department he really is. One of Minister Saavedra Lamas' secretaries announced: "The Argentine Government does not desire to make further issue of the matter, especially as the Senate committee is showing a tendency to prevent a continuance of the reckless, sensational and unfounded charges...
...Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was the child of a middle-class professional family of Madrid which had fallen on evil days. Miguel left home early to seek his fortune. In Italy he became a Spanish footsoldier, lounged about Rome and Naples in a brilliant uniform with little money in his purse. Though some of his biographers say he was a born soldier, Author Tomas disagrees, thinks Cervantes loathed the life but preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet...