Evening star., 1941-06-30
Discusses Areentino's
Political Crisis
Believes Favorable Settlement
Turns on Projected Bunning
Of Trunsoceun News
BY ALLEN HADEN.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Daily News.

by ALLEN HADEN.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Daily News.
BUENOS AIRES, June 30.-Argen-
tinas political crisis, which has reached
a point, after many weeks OF party
strife and indecision, where choice
must be made in hemisphere relations
between a course of ultranationallsm
and alignment with the democratic
front led by the United States, is eX-
pected to be solved soon in a peaceable
manner.
Two developments presage that solu-
tion in what has seemed for time
potentially explosive deadlock in Argen-
tinas complicated field of national
politics.
One is the action of DR.. Ramon S.
Castillo, acting president, who has Of
fered the ministry of war to former
President Gen. Agustin P. Justo. And
the other is the projected resignation
of the stalWart conservative, Juan Sola,
from the congressional committee inves-
tigating un-Argentine activities.
Gen. Justo and Sola are symbols whose
acts are clues to governmental trends
at time when Argentina must elect
to continue 'iSolationiSt" or openly join
Pan-America in common ahti-Axis
program.
Gen. Justo, most astute of Argentine
politicians, desires the nations presi-
dency at the next election He seeks 1t,
however by legal means. This explains
his recent rapprochement with the radi-
cal party, which commands 80 per cent
of the popular vote.
Seeing the democratic tide sweeping
over the Americas, Gen. Justo is re-
ported to have urged Acting President
Castillo to chart foreign policy along
side that of the United States. He pro-
posed, it Is known, that Argentina send
an Ambassador Extraordinary to Wash
ington as evidence that, although the
last American republic to do so, Argen-
tina has finally got the democratic re-
ligion." For this role he nominated an
other former president, DR.. Marcelo T.
de Alvear.
Political circles here freely say that
Norman Armour, United States Ambas-
sador to Argentina, now in Washington,
is already arranging tentative dates,
terms of acceptance and protocol in
connection with the putative De Alvear
Ambassadorship.
Meanwhile, Juan Sola'S resignation
from the Argentine investigation is eX-
pected Wednesday, at the next session
of Congress. Sola has quarreled with
his colleagues, insisting against their
opposition that Communists as we'll as
Nazis and Fascists operating in Argen-
tina be probed.
At the local committees first meeting,
it is recalled, Sola demanded the intro
ductory speech which Representative
Martin Dies. Democrat, of Texas deliv-
cred in Washington as chairman of the
Special Committee to Investigate Un-
American Activities, be taken as the
basis for the Argentine inquiry. This
motion was viewed, however. as tao
tical move from which Solas co-mem-
berS SHE'D.
Dr.. de Alvear's role-if he accepts
may be described as ambassador of the
Democratic majority of Argentina to the
Democratic majority of the United
States" His advisers are careful to in
sist publicly that an ambassadorship Of
that nature cannot simply constitute
stunt in domestic Argentine politics.
If it were. they hold, public opinion in
the United States would recognize it as
such and it would backfire to the injury
of Argentine prestige up North.
These same advisers contend that the
clearest and most significant hallmark
of the genuineneSs of the De Alvear am
baSsadorship would be closure of the
Argentine branch of Transocean, Ger
man official news agency. Already barred
in the United States. Transocean is now
under fire as the center of Nazi SUBJ
versive activities in this country.
On that peg hangs the whole crisis
For without closure of Transocean, the
De Alvear ambassadorship would be
hollow gesture. Transocean thus be-
comes third symbol in the complex
struggle between democratic forces and
nationalists in Argentina.