THE AMERICAS: Friendship As Usual

When the State Department's Latin American Affairs chief, Henry Holland, called in Argentina a year ago, he diplomatically saluted President Juan Perón as "a great Argentine"—a judgment very much out of fashion among the revolutionaries who now control the country. But when Holland returned to Argentina last week, he found President Pedro Aramburu and his government quite content to forget it and get on with friendship as usual. Holland twice chatted cordially with Aramburu and held lengthy talks with Aramburu's No. 1 economic advisor, Raúl Prebisch. They agreed to go ahead with the $60 million U.S. loan for an Argentine steel mill that had been in the works under Perón, and completed the spadework for future credits.