ARGENTINA: Fireworks?

In the presence of the elegantly uniformed diplomatic corps and ecclesiastics, headed by crimson-calotted Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, the 6th Ordinary Session of the Congress of the Argentine Republic was formally opened one afternoon last week by Vice-President-of-the-Nation-in-the -Exercise-of -the -Executive -Power Dr. Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo. Fireworks had been predicted. Cucumber-cool Castillo popped not a single lady-cracker.

To listless, chatting Congressmen, the juridical-minded Acting President slowly, laboriously read his message. He stressed hemispheric solidarity, the blessings of peaceĀ—and Argentina's determination not to change its policy a tittle. Excerpts:...

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