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...looks of the Buenos Aires press next day, PerÓn's intimidation had worked wonders. The anti-Government attacks had stopped dead. One rumored reason for the reimposition of strict press control: the former German Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann, had squealed in Germany and implicated, as Nazi connivers, Argentina Army officers, from General of the Army Carlos von der Becke on down...
When Gottfried Sandstede fled, the Argentines were hopping mad. That was before Pearl Harbor, before their ships were sunk by Axis raiders, before they were formally accused by Sumner Welles of harboring Axis spies. The public at that time demanded the ousting of Nazi Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann. What might happen this time, if events followed a similar course, was anybody's guess. But it was clear that, as they already had in Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), the words of Sumner Welles were bearing overripe fruit in Argentina...
...Argentina acted with Delphic ambiguity last week, secretly instructed its delegates to act "in accordance with the principles which Argentina has always upheld in its international policies." But Argentina moved closer toward collaboration by "recalling" her Ambassador from Berlin, and announced that Germany had recalled Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann,* whose persona has long been non grata with Argentina's pro-Ally Chamber of Deputies...
First guesses were that Castillo would use his new powers to strangle the tendentious German Transocean News Service, to stomp out Nazi propaganda agents. But German Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, whose deportation was asked three months ago by the Chamber of Deputies, continued as active as ever. Two henchmen representing the Federation of German Cultural & Beneficent Societies turned Castillo's "speak-no-evil" policy to their own advantage, refused to testify before Deputy Raúl Damonte Taborda's "Dies Committee" on the spending of more than $4,000,000 during the past year...
Because the decree forbade publication of "statements affecting the neutrality of the Argentine Republic ... or its friendly relations with other countries," the pro-Axis newspaper Pampero discontinued its anti-U.S. cartoons. But irrepressible Horn carried a social note: "Monday morning von Thermann visited Castillo," embellished the story with a cartoon of Thermann's head on a hog plastered with swastikas...