Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-10-17
Ramirez Discharges
Manifesto Signers;
|AssaiIs 'Tampering'
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 16.-Presi-
dent Pedro Ramirez today dis
charged all government employees
who signed manifesto published
yesterday which called on the gov
eminent to return to constitutional
democracy and to fulfill its inter-
national obligations in the henis-
phere solidarity program.
The order, which was directed to
all government employees whether
they occupied salaried or honorary
positions, follows a statement by
Ramirez in which he said the gov
eminent won't tolerate any lamp
ering." The presidents order dis
charging the governmental employees
said the declarations in the mani
festo were incompatible with the
honorable discharge of public func-
tions."
GA Montevideo dispatch said
Ramirez's cabinet, which was re-
shuffled last week after three
ministers, regarded as pro-demo-
cratic resigned, was regarded now
as even more reactionary than
its predecessor and that it was
plain the nationalist government
plans to stay on indefinitely and
to harbor no intrusion from out
side its closed ranks)
National Moral Support.
Commenting on yesterdays mani
festo, Ramirez said in part:
"A group of persons calling them
selves representatives of a thing de-
crepit and nonexistent published
yesterday in some newspapers a
manifesto demanding fundamental
solutions to some Of the national
problems. -
THE revolution was conceived and
achieved by armed forces with ma
tional support and will not permit
under any circumstances a return
to the conditions which existed I'M
der the former regime as wanted by
those who led the people and the
republic to the deplorable position
we'll known to all.
Meanwhile (the government en-
phatically calls attention to the fact
that some of the signers of the mani
festo addressed to the Argentines
are foreigners. Some of them were
born in far-off lands; problems Of
inherent nationality must be solved
by the masters house instead of by
guests, whatever rights they may
invoke.
Won't Tolerate Tampering.
Many Of the signers are, besides,
connected with the extreme left as
proved by their anti-social, anti
Argentine backgrounds documented
by official records prior to the revo-
luton. Some of them were &C
claimed by Communistic crowds.
The government is animated by
ample republican feeling as dem
onstrated justly by the publication
of the manifesto: but it won't tole-
rate any tampering, even less will
it accept impositions or polemics
incompatible to the sovereignty of
its representation. ."
The manifesto was signed by 1853
prominent leaders in the business,
industrial, professional and agri-
cultural life of Argentina. The num-
Der of persons holding government
positions who signed it was not
Immediately known.
Came Into Power in June.
The Ramirez government. came
into power after the June 4 reyo-
luton which ousted the pro-Nazi
regime of President Ramon Cas-
tillo. However, Remirez has failed
to sever relations with the Axis, and
Argentina is the only South Ameri-
can country which has not done so.
While Ramirez, himself, had not
answered President Roosevelt's pro-
test yesterday against the tempo
rary suspension Of Jewish newspa-
pers in Argentina, the chief of the
Presidents press Office, 1t. Col. Hec-
tor Ladvocat, expressed regret over
the circumstances which prompted
Mr.. Roosevelt to protest.
Col. Ladvocat explained there was
no intention to close the newspa-
pers permanently and that an order
authorizing their temperance had
been issued before President Roose-
welt commented in Washington.
Estimates of the number of per-
sons affected by the order ran as
high as 10 out of the 1873 manifesto
signers. Many of them are part
time Government employees serving