In the great Luna Park sports stadium of Buenos Aires, thousands of Argentine "Nationalists" gathered last week to celebrate, in their own way, the first anniversary of the Rio de Janeiro Conference. That conference had sought to achieve hemispheric solidarity against the Axis, but the festivities last week were sponsored by Naziphile General Juan Bautista Molina's Afirmación Argentina. The speeches, hailing neutrality as a diplomatic victory, were calculated to please President Ramón Castillo, who had prudently stayed away.
But all was not quite as well with "prudent neutrality" as the mass meeting seemed to indicate. For the first time, a...
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