President Inaugurated

ARGENTINA President Inaugurated Lying athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic.

Argentina's Irigoyen easily won the election (TIME, May 21) without uttering a single campaign speech. More and more, as time goes on, he works through trusted henchmen, seemingly confident that Argentina's masses will remember that he is their man, the first "man of the people" to hold the Presidential Baton.

Since the election was held Vice-President-Elect Francesco Beiro has died and been replaced by Dr. Enrique Martinez. He and Dr. Irigoyen solemnly took their oaths of office last week in the Congressional Building, received a Congressional cheer, and then set off down the shaft of the dumbbell, flanked on either hand by deliriously joyful Fiesta throngs.

Twelve years ago, when President Irigoyen was inaugurated for his first term (1916-22), the crowd burst through police ranks, unhitched the horses of the presidential carriage, and drew it themselves slowly down the Avenida de Mayo to Government House. Then Dr. Irigoyen beamed with pleasure at the plaudits and waved high & wide his hat. Last week, confident of his power and surfeited with adulation, he sped down the Avenida in his limousine, so briskly that the mob had scarcely time to see or cheer.

At Government House Dr. Irigoyen was greeted by the man whom he placed there in 1922 when his own first term expired, Dr. Marcelo T. de Alvear. Last week retiring President de Alvear surrendered his baton to Dr. Irigoyen and then the Presidential band of colors, into which is woven the figure of the rising sun.

That was all, except that before sitting down to a State Luncheon the new President announced his Cabinet:

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Horacio Cyhanarte.

Minister of Finance, Dr. Enrique Perez Colman.

Minister of War, General Luis Delle-piane.

Minister of Marine, Vice Admiral Tomas Zurueta.

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Juan Fleitas.

Minister of Public Works, Jose Abalos.

Since Argentines fear that the U. S. tariff on corn and flaxseed is about to be raised, with the inevitable effect of reducing Argentine exports of those staples, it is understood that President Irigoyen intends to withhold Argentine ratification of the Kellogg Peace Pact, in hopes of convincing the Coolidge Administration that the tariff on corn and flaxseed really should not be raised.