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Show Argentina's Facist Threat The break between the United States and Argentina has called attention to the existince of a dangerous regime in that South American country but not every American is familiar with the line of patter that is being scattered scat-tered throughout Argentina. It is strongly similar to the mouthings of Mussolini and Hitler Hit-ler in their days of preparation for warfare. Walter Lipmann points out that Col. Peron on June 10 committed his government govern-ment "to total mobilization of the country" and called upon "all the best minds of the nation to know war, to study and understand un-derstand it, as the only way of reaching a complete solution of the problem that may be presented pre-sented to us." Mr. Lippmann observes that a dictatorship preparing for total war is not a neutral state and says that "there is no doubt whatever that the Argentine dictatorship dic-tatorship intends external aggression." ag-gression." He reports that there is conclusive proof that the Bolivian government was overthrown over-thrown last winter by a conspiracy con-spiracy fomented in Argentina. The Argentinians have always possessed considerable military superiority over their neighbors, Uruguay, Paraguy, Bolivia and Chile. The Fascist regime now in power evidently believes that it can take advantage of world conditions to become aggressive and take over the southren half of South America. It may not be possible to meet this threat with words or to prevent pre-vent the impending aggression by means of the diplomatic isolation isola-tion that has been thrown a-crainst a-crainst Col. Peron's government. The leaders may precipitate a crisis and seek to capitalize upon the uncertainty that complicates the decisions of the other governments govern-ments of the Western Hemisphere. |