ARGENTINA: Nobody's Government

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.

The Chamber's Radical majority administered this rebuff to Argentina's Conservative Acting President for two reasons: 1) he had refused to acknowledge its demand that German Ambassador Baron Edward von Thermann be handed his passport; 2) he ignored...