LIFE IN BUENOS AIRES

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27591, 23 February 1955, Page 5

LIFE IN BUENOS AIRES

CITY “NO PLACE FOR ENGLISHMAN” ANTIPATHY NOTICED BY N.Z. TOURIST (New Zealand Press Assoctattom WELLINGTON, February 22. Buenos Aires is no place for an English tourist, in the opinion of Mr T. M. Moore, a Christchurch businessman, who returned to Wellington with his wife and two children in the Rangitane today. While on a world tour, Mr Moore visited Buenos Aires. “But we stayed only three days. We had intended staying seven weeks,” he said. “I was frightened to let my wife out of my sight in Buenos Aires,” said Mr Moore. “We were even frightened to move anywhere in the city. We had occasion to question a fare with a taxi driver. A crowd gathered. We had to settle the dispute quickly, for if the police had come, we, Being British, would have been in the wrong. “Life for the English in Buenos Aires is worse than under the Nazi regime,” said Mr Moore. “There are secret police everywhere, and you are scared to open your mouth even to talk to another Englishman. Everyone looks at an Englishman with suspicion. “We had to get out of the country because we were not wanted. During the short time we were in the city, Peron was crossing swords with the Church of Rome, and the city was seething. I don’t advise any EnglishIman to go to Buenos Aires,” he said.