ABSTRACT
The turn of the century saw a gradual change in Anglo-Argentine relations as more and more Argentines began to question the role of Britain in Argentine life. The new president, elected on a populist platform supporting the masses, was Hipolito Yrigoyen, who, after the United States entered the First World War, almost single-handedly kept Argentina out of the war in spite of a widespread clamor that it should join the United States, England, and France in the conflict. Because Argentine law forbids the immediate reelection of a president, another Radical, the more moderate Marcelo T. de Alvear, was elected president in 1922, but in 1928, Yrigoyen was reelected. In 1923, La Prensa continued, the Argentine postal service had protested to the Universal Postal Union against a stamp issued by Britain of the Falkland Islands Dependencies. La Prensa’s defense of Argentina’s rights to the Malvinas is an excellent example of the unity among Argentines on the question of the islands.
