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Hope of a tregua (political truce) for politically torn Argentina died aborning last week. In a huff the Chamber of Deputies cold-shouldered Acting President Ramon S. Castillo's plea of "urgent necessity" and adjourned without approving either a budget or a $110,000,000 loan from the U.S. This left the Government budgetless for its second consecutive year...
...guarantee that November and December provincial elections be conducted honestly, i.e., under Federal rather than potentially fraudulent provincial supervision. The Radicals' objective was to force an extraordinary session for another try at ratification of the sorely needed loan, then to use the meeting to air these complaints. Ramon Castillo said flatly that no extraordinary session would be called...
Argentina was virtually without a Government. President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz was too ill to govern. Acting President Castillo too hamstrung by the Radicals, who saw their party being edged out of the power it won at the polls...
Suddenly news of the attempted coup swept Buenos Aires. Acting President Castillo sharply demanded legislative action. The National Democrats returned to the Chamber and the Radicals began considering and passing budget items...
Some Argentine observers thought they saw connections between the Chamber deadlock and the coup. Radical Deputy Eduardo Teisaire even accused Acting President Castillo himself of having been one of the plotters. One thing at least seemed certain: Acting President Castillo had been in a position where an attempted coup, or any other excuse to adopt a strong-arm policy, could not have been altogether unwelcome...