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they were welcome TO do whatever
they pleased under the Castillo re-
gime, these folk probably became
so obvious with their activities as
10 have become troublesome even
10 the ueutrality-wedded admins
tration
However, IL may nave been rath-
er willing TO make a few examples.
for the rest Of the Americas edi-
fcation.
Being one OF the only two new
world nations not 10 have, at least.
broken relations with the Axis
powers, not to mention declaring
outright war, like a number of the
others, certainly got the Buenos
Aires rulership unpleasantly talked
about throughout the western
Hemisphere With Chile similarly
situated. possibly this wasn't so
bad.
Chile Getting Tough
Now. though, Chilean President
Juan Antonio Rios is cracking
down so vigorously upon Axis rep
resentatives on his side OF the
Andes as to give the impression
that he's about to Join the Pan
American majority. leaving Argen-
tina rather too conspicuously alone
TO be comfortable. President Rios
has sided with the anti-AXis dem
ocracies all along, anyway. but he
only lately was elected. Then State
Undersecretary sumner Welles
fretted him severely by referring
TO Chile, along with Argentina. as
a Latin America area in which, due
to neutrality, Axis spies, he said,
were permitted to operate trouble
somely. Nevertheless. irritated
though he evidently was by Sum-
ner's remark, the Santiago execu-
tive is losing no time in Shaping
an eXtinguisher upon Axis espion-
age
Assuming that he plans an early
break Of Chilean relations with the
German-Italian-Jap trio. he'll be
leaving President Castillo without
a new world partner. and it's con-
ceivable that the latter doesn't like
the prospect.
The Argentine chieftain isn't
pro-AXis or pro-German on senu-
mental grounds, either
In private life he's a land baron
and the Argentine soil and climate
produce almost exactly the same
crop Of livestock that the United
States does, so that there's no
market here for his stuff. whereas
it's in great demand throughout
the Axis generally and in Germany
in particular.
Argentina's aristocracy Is main
ly agricultural or grazing Conse-
quently it's predominantly pro-
Axis. for business reasons. And
President Castillo belongs to it,
In the big cities. though. like
Buenos Aires and Rosario, there
are industrial and financial inter-
ests which, have ties with US
Yankees, and that makes them IA
vorable to our cause, especially
against the Germans. who don't
supply them with much nourish-
ment.
Pressure Applied
Well, President Castillo, coming,
from out in the sticks, with his
big rural landlords complex, into
manufacturing and banking Bue-
nos Aires, is liable to have had
strong local pressure to bear on
him. since his arrival, 10 modify his
ideas. Incidentally. it is possible
that II was pretty imperative pres
sure. II wouldn't be unprecedented
for a united Buenos Aires group to
upset national Argentine admin
istration. Later, perhaps the rural
ties. being in a countrywide major-
ity, might, after quite a campaign,
reverse matters. That, however.
wouldn't be any great consolation
to the ousted executive. after he'd
been attended 70 by the immediate