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From good, grey Cordell Hull, Storm's letter wrung a masterpiece of glacial denunciation and bad judgment. Argentine nationalists raged at the insult. Storni resigned...
Last year Argentine Foreign Minister Segundo Storni, considered the most pro-Allied member of the Cabinet, wrote a naive letter to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull explaining Argentina's position...
This lesson in Argentine psychology might have taught Secretary Hull the danger of scolding haughty Argentines. But Hull's letter to Storni was only one of a series of denunciations. Backed by no threat of action, they merely made the Argentines angry, bolstered the popularity of the Colonels' Government...
...went Vice Admiral Storni's Under Secretary and the chief of his American Affairs section. In came, as Acting Foreign Minister, General Alberto Gilbert, Minister of Interior and dominating figure of the anti-rupturist forces...
Public reaction to the Storni letter and its answer was divided. As the wording of the U.S. note sank in, extremely nationalistic Argentines grew hot with anger. Said one young hothead: "To hell with the U.S. We're looking toward Europe for now and after the war." Said one whose head was much cooler: "Don't think me unpatriotic, but the Government was asking...