Word: aramburu
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...chief aims of President Pedro Aramburu and the officers around him-as mirrored by their own words and deeds-took firm shape last week. They intend to wipe out the cult of Juan Peron, free the economy from strangling Peronist controls and then run off fair elections. The week saw dramatic steps toward all three ends...
...Buenos Aires press, reveling in its new-found freedom, backed Revolutionary General Aramburu with a unanimity such as Peron, for all his powers and pressures, never quite commanded. Democracia, a paper that Peron used to favor with his own editorial comments, coyly signed "Descartes," commented approvingly, "This is not vengeance but justice." Asked El Laborista, "Is it not proof of wrongdoing to have a billion pesos when one started with nothing ten years ago?" So bitter was the feeling against the Peronista fat cats that no one even asked whether confiscation was constitutional, or a safe precedent...
...Issue Deferred. Significantly, the new government's announced aims did not include any basic overhaul of church-state relations. An attempt to disestablish the Roman Catholic Church was one of the main causes of Peron's fall, and Aramburu apparently prefers to leave the church's future status to his elected successor...
...sternly banned politicking-but cooperated wholeheartedly in staging a public holiday Mass in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, facing Government House. Result: one of the biggest throngs in the plaza's history-150,000-calmly gathered and calmly went away, leaving the church-state issue just where Aramburu wanted it: deftly deferred...
...Gainza Paz, now 81, has phoned Buenos Aires' La Prensa almost every week and demanded of the switchboard operator: "When are you going to give La Prensa back to the owners?" Last week, the switchboard girl answered: "Soon, Señora." Next day, by decree of President Aramburu, La Prensa was taken from the custody of the government, which had expropriated it, and returned to Owner Doña Zelmira and the Paz family. The paper's seizure by Perón, said the decree, was "one of the most implacable persecutions" of the dictatorship. Hours later...