MINISTERS REPLACED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 123, 19 February 1944, Page 7

MINISTERS REPLACED

Cause Of Argentine Coup NEW YORK, February 16. Vice-Admiral Benito Sue.yro has been appointed Argentine Foreign Minister, Senor Honorio Silguira, Minister of Justice and Education, and Lieutenant-Uol. Domingo Cortege Presidential Secretary, replacing the three Cabinet members who resigned yesterday. A correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that a German protest against the detention of the military attache, General Friedrich Wolff, brought Argentina close to war and precipitated yesterday’s coup, according to an informed diplomatic source. An insolent German Note on February 11 denied charges of Nazi espionage in Argentina and threatened reprisals against Argentine diplomats in occupied countries. Senor Gilbert angrily demanded a declaration of war against the Reich and a rupture of relations with Spain because of her complicity n the Axis espionage. However, the Nationalist officers refused to agree to a declaration of war, and Senior Gilbert, Senor Garcia and Sgiior Gonzales were forced to resign. INTERIM APPOINTMENTS NEW YORK. February 17.

The Argentine Government has reached a temporary solution of the Cabinet crisis by designating .Vice-Admiral Sueyro and Colonel Cortese interim members of the Cabinet till permanent officials are appointed, says the Buenos Aires correspondent of the “New York Times.” The only permanent appointment is that of Senor Silguira as Minister of Justice, which is not a political post. It is learnt that General Ramirez’s decision to declare’ war last week arose not only from the German Note but also from a Japanese protest over the arrest of the Japanese naval attaches. General Ramirez considered that the Japanese Note was specially offensive, since it was virtually an ultimatum demanding apologies, demanding the immediate release of the attaches. s and threatening reprisals.