Abstract

Report on Argentina

The article comments on the political future of Argentina. Today some people in Argentina are trying to explain the defeat by the fact that the Conservative Party was not a part of the Democratic Union, while the Communist Party was. The democratic leaders made another mistake which affected not the election itself but its aftermath. As soon as the vote was cast they hurried into print with statements extolling the honesty of the election and thanking the army for defending it. Since the vote was honest, it was doubtless proper to say so. But if the democrats had not believed so wholeheartedly and prematurely in their own success, they would have qualified their enthusiasm by at least recalling the previous role of the army and the bloody incidents which had punctuated the campaign.