Evening star., 1943-06-16
New Argentine Chief
Begins Drastic Purge
OF Provincial Regimes
Promises Constitutional
Elections Will Be Held
After Nation Is Purified
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, June 16.-Elect-
ed governments had been set aside
today in nine of Argentina's IA prov
inces in the new national admins
tration's "purification" program, and
President Pedro Ramirez forecast
Intervention in all IA before the
country is returned to republican
forms.
In statement issued last night to
members of the foreign press, Senor
Ramirez said the movement which
overthrow the conservative Castillo
administration early this month, al
though army inspired, does not aim
Ito perpetuate itself in a military
character"
He asserted, however elections
would be held and the country de-
ivered into the hands of it's politi-
cal leaders only after successful
completion of campaign ito purify
and reconstruct" the entire govern
ment setup.
AS for the provisional govern
ment's foreign policy, President Ra-
mirez reiterated the stand previous
ly announced by Foreign Minister
Segundo Storm.
Will Let Deeds Speak.
I'VE seek greater rapprochment
with our American brothers by con-
solidat ting ties which bind our COM
mon interests" Senor Ramirez said.
I'VE will accomplish practical PAN
Americanism, letting the eloquence
Of deeds speak in place of wordy
rhetoric, which soldiers neither un-
derstand nor practice"
Declaring that lin the existing
circumstances no public question has
greater Importance, nor calls for
more urgent solution, than that Of
the international problem" the pro-
visional President pledged his ad-
ministration to Justice and truth"
in carrying out both it's foreign and
domestic programs.
Summarizing the regimes domes-
tic policies, the Ramirez statement
said:
Our movement had contemplated
four stages:
First, the overthrow Of fraud
ulent and disorganized government.
Second, to restore orderly admin
istration.
Third, to purify and thoroughly
organize the administration, purg-
ing venal, incompetent and parasite
cal elements.
Plans Legal Regime.
Fourth, to renew the national
spirit and national conscience. which
mad been suffocated, by infusing new
life in conformity with historical
tradition-in a word to give the Ar
gentine theological backbone to the
entire country and then deliver 1t
cleansed and renovated in all its
values and living forces into the legal
hands which must govern it,"
The movement now is progressing
through its second and third stages.
In suspending electoral govern
ment in the provinces. the admins
tration has purged governors con-
trolled by the Conservat tive party in
all but two of those in which Federal
commissioners have taken over thus
Tar. In one. Radical IlberaD
party governor was in office. In the
other, Former President Ramon S.
Castillo had previously intervened
after defeat of the Conservative cam
didate.
Referring to the one-day revolt,
President Ramirez declared:
The army moved. not in order to
make a revolution. but in order to
solve an acute problem facing the
people, especially the working class.
The army acted on behalf of the
constitution, which the regime will
fully re-establish in every particular
and whose respect will be COM
manded with a maximum of energy
and severity"