ARGENTINA: Poison in Buenos Aires

Argentine nationalists put on a show last week in front of the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Waving flags of Argentina, Spain, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile, they shouted "Down with the Yankees!" Loud were the cheers for the new President, Edelmiro Farrell, stooge of Fascist-minded Colonel Juan Domingo Perón. Loud were the jeers for the U.S., which had failed to form a united hemisphere front against his recognition.*

The Argentine Way. The U.S. is apt to have long-continued trouble with Argentina. This prospect was further indicated last week by another Argentinian, Ramón Lavalle, a liberal Argentine journalist and ex-diplomat (who...

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