UNREST IN ARGENTINA

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1945, Page 5

UNREST IN ARGENTINA

BUSINESS MEN'S PROTEST. NEW YORK, September 15. Two hundred business leaders in Buenos Aires have decided to close all their factories and stores on Wednesday afternoon to permit employers and employees to attend a huge rally sponsored by the Board of Democratic Co-ordination, which is the name for the anti-Government popular front. The businessmen's decision is considered revolutionary, as it may be the prelude to a national general strike to force the military regime to abdicate. The Argentine Vice-President (Colonel Peron) yesterday issued a general order to Army officers warning them against persons approaching the armed forces in a desperate attempt to divide and weaken them. Colonel Peron alleged that the opposition had reached the point of infamy by proposing foreign intervention. The United States Minister to the Argentine (Mr. Spruike Braden), in a speech at Buenos Aires, said that except for one neutral country, there was no country in the world' where the ■Nazis found themselves in such :> strong position, as they held in Argentina. The war would not be over for the American Republics until the Nazis and their agents and collaborators had been ejected from their strongholds in countries of the Americas where they were hiding and growing powerful. A recent measure to impede the Nazis’ work had come with too much delay. Thus its effectiveness was weak, and in some cases nil, added Mr. Braden.