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ALONSO SEES U. S., ARGENTINA CLOSER

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"Argentina will align her foreign policy closer to that of the United States within the next five weeks" was the prediction yesterday of Amado Alonso, director of the Institute of Philology of Buenos Aires University, who has delivered two lectures on Spanish literature in Cambridge.

Called to this country to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago, Alonso was amazed at North American friendliness, quite different from the Argentinian conception of a Yankee reception. This false idea can be traced to American movies and certain objectionable business practices which have spread such impressions throughout Argentina, he said.

"The Argentinian and American peoples have common objectives in the present situation, and purely domestic problems prevent a complete Argentinian break with the Axis," the Professor asserted. He reported further that American literature; Hemingway, Dos Passos, and others are tremendously popular in the southern republic.

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