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Into the Presidency of Argentina last week stepped big. solemn General Augustin Justo and out stepped his friend, small, whimsical General Jose Francisco Uriburu, remarking candidly: "The regime which I headed as Provisional President was illegal and it was unconstitutional, but it was based upon Justice and Right...
...President was elected. His first act last week was to raise the state of siege which has gripped Argentina since September 1930 (when General Uriburu staged his coup d'état). Back toward home headed an Argentine transport crammed with political prisoners. Then suddenly the transport put to sea again. Aboard the ship, the new Government of Argentina announced, are crews...
...trunks, but not a man did they hit. Twenty-one provincial police went scurrying into the wood, shouting and firing. Fourteen scampered back. When night fell Argentina's "Three Wild Irishmen"-Mario, Eduardo and Roberto Kennedy-still held their wood. In Buenos Aires Dictator-President General Jose Francisco Uriburu pulled his long mustaches and scratched his head. He could not turn over the government to President-elect Augustin Justo with clean hands until the Kennedys were smoked out. ''Trivial and ridiculous fiasco!'' he growled-and called for more troops. Trivial (but not entirely ridiculous) Argentina...
...game at which any number of nations can play. In Washington, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board is calling for "a temporary embargo on wheat imports" (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week Argentina got into the game. Her new Provisional Government, headed by swart, hard-eyed, big-mustachioed General Uriburu, suddenly declared an absolute embargo on "Paraguay...
Keynote of the Uriburu bid for U. S. favor...