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...Chamber's Radical majority administered this rebuff to Argentina's Conservative Acting President for two reasons: 1) he had refused to acknowledge its demand that German Ambassador Baron Edward von Thermann be handed his passport; 2) he ignored Radical clamor for a guarantee that November and December provincial elections be conducted honestly, i.e., under Federal rather than potentially fraudulent provincial supervision. The Radicals' objective was to force an extraordinary session for another try at ratification of the sorely needed loan, then to use the meeting to air these complaints. Ramon Castillo said flatly that no extraordinary session...
Baron von Thermann has found Argentina a fairly fertile spot in which to sow the seed of Nazi doctrine. Though only about 235,000 of Argentina's 13,000,000 inhabitants are Germans, many of them are well-to-do and influential. German-controlled investments in the country add up to about $1,500,000,000. The Argentine Government, under Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, has done its best to turn an austerely neutral face to the world. But in spite of several stump-toed Nazi plots (including one for German annexation of Patagonia, uncovered in 1939), the only...
Last month a committee of the Chamber of Deputies, headed by young Raúl Damonte Taborda, submitted a report showing that Ambassador von Thermann had received funds from these societies (TIME, Sept. 8). Last fortnight Investigator Damonte followed this with a report on the expenditures of the German Embassy. The figures were enough to make the Argentine press and Chamber of Deputies see swastikas...
...earlier Damonte reports on Nazi propaganda work, produced an explosion. Irrespective of party, Argentine Deputies tumbled over themselves in their anxiety to know more, to take action. Introduced into the Chamber last week was a resolution, supported by all political parties. Its chief points: 1) Ambassador von Thermann had abused his privileges; 2) leaders of German culture groups should be deported...
Busy drafting protests of innocence to the Argentine Foreign Office, Ambassador von Thermann had the added worry of an unpopular guest. This was Captain Fritz Wiedemann, who was ousted this summer from the German Consulate in San Francisco...