THE AMERICAS: Misunderstood Argentina

In proud and prejudiced Argentina the cankerous issue of neutrality broke out again last week. For the second time war and peace hung delicately in the balance —more delicately even than at the time of the revolt which put the Army and President Pedro Ramirez in power and "prudently neutral" ex-President Ramón Castillo in the discard (TIME, June 14). For this time the showdown was clearly between the "rupturists" and "anti-rupturists" in the Ramirez Government.

The Letter. The issue came into the open with the publication of an exchange of letters between Vice...

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