FIRST TEST AWAITED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1944, Page 5

FIRST TEST AWAITED

Ree. 9 a.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 26. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that Argentina's action is widely regarded as an 1 impressive achievement by the United States good-neighbour policy and a personal triumph for the Secretary of State (Mr. Hull). Diplomats point out that the first test of the completeness of the break will be discerned'in the effectiveness with which Argentina cleans out the nests of Axis agents. Argentina was prompted not by the discovery of espionage but the discovery that Argentine regimes, both past and present, had been backing the wrong horse, says the "New York Herald Tribune,'* in an editorial. The growijjg Allied military successes led Premier Ramirez to act upon the old and familiar American political maxim. "If you can't bear them you must join them." In a broadcast, the spokesman for the Tokia Radio - Information Board, Mr. Sadoa Iguchi, commended Argentina for taking a courageous step in trying to preserve her national interests and prevent the spread of calamities of war in the face of heavy pressure from the United States. Argentina remained neutral to the last, said Mr. Iguchi.