ARGENTINA’S RULERS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24582, 2 June 1945, Page 7

ARGENTINA’S RULERS

Allegations Of Intimidation

GAOLS FILLED TO OVERFLOWING

(N.2L Press AssoctstJon— Copyright) (Rec. s.spmJ NEW YORK. May 81. •The Argentine Government had no sooner declared war on. Gernumy and Japan and sighed the Ghapoliepec Act than it deprived the. Argento* people of what small remains oYfrOedom they possCsSe<Lund«tbe prttext that anyone who disapproves m war time is A traitor," Says the BuWM Aires correspondent of the “New York Ti The Government embarked m 4 campaign of intimidation by wholesale arrests of prominent citizens and re-established political censorship in a vain attempt to prevent new* reachingthe Outride world. •This week the censorship mangled dispatches-to the *New York Time*/ dealing with Mr StOttihius’ speech JO UNCIO. Experience has shown there is no hope of getting tnfe ttutn past the Argentine censorship.. Therefore this dispatch is sent via other channels. . , , _ “Things have happened in Buenos Aires recently exceeding anything this correspondent remembers during his 17 years' experience m Fascist Italy, He has seen whole sections of Buenos Aires occupied by Hie army in full WaV kit, peaceful citizens searched in the streets, and policemen directing traffic with revolvers in their hands. “All gaols throughout the nation are filled to overflowing. In May alow eight newspapers were closed and seven editors were arrested. “Until the Argentine people art riven the opportunity to elect a government, relations with the United States will never be cordial."