NEW REGIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 3

NEW REGIME

APPARENTLY IN CONTROL OF ARGENTINA GENERAL RAWSON PRESIDENT FOLLOWING ON RESIGNATION OF DR. CASTILLO. REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 5. Following upon the receipt of news yesterday that 10,()()() troops of the Argentine Army, led by the Minister of War. General Ramirez, had revolted against the regime of President Ramon Castillo, the British Government has received a number of reports from the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Sir David Kellv.

These reports in general confirm that Dr. Castillo and certain members cf his Cabinet left'Buenos Aires yesterday in a river gunboat. By the afternoon it appeared that the capital was generally quiet. General Arturo Rawson, who was in command of the troops which entered Buenos Aires, sent his naval aide yesterday afternoon to greet Sir David Kelly in the name of the provisional Government, and the aide informed the Ambassador that the new Government would be constituted within the framework of the Argentine Constitution in conformity with democratic principles. A later report states that General Rawson has been made the new President of Argentina. Dr. Cassillo surrendered to the general commanding the Second Division, Argentine Army, at La Plata today, states an agency message. Dr. Cassillo went ashore at the naval base from the warship aboard which he had attempted to maintain the Government. Mr Elmer Davis,the Director of the United States Office of War Information, in a broadcast today, said that the chief importance of the quick and almost bloodless revolution was that it showed that even the conservative -and military classes in Argentina realised that the Axis was going to lose the war, Argentina had remained neutral and a base for Nazi and Fascist agents because of the policy of Dr. Castillo which, till recently, had had the support of conservative and military elements.

The majority did not like it, but repressive methods had succeeded in keeping the discontent down. The upset came only when his own supporters realised that Dr. Cassillo was on the wrong horse and that Argentina/was losing ground not only in the esteem of the rest of the world but also in economic and political standing in South America, where Brazil, enthusiastically on the side of the Allies, was assuming the leadership.