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Major General Pedro Aramburu, who took over as President of Argentina a fortnight ago on a platform of tougher crackdown on Peronismo than his go-slow predecessor, last week cracked down in measures both symbolic and practical...
...open-collared shirt, and a saintly Eva Peron, in a plain dress with outstretched hand. Thus, with monumental effrontery, had Peron ranked himself and his wife with Argentina's Washington, General Jose de San Martin (the seven remaining statues symbolized old age, children, various typical workers). Aramburu's government planned to lower the 2O-ton statues of the Perons with heavy cranes, cut up the costly Carrara marble into useful blocks of raw material for art students...
...from Juan Perón, the anti-Perón revolutionary movement split like an overripe melon-and moderate Eduardo Lonardi was in the wrong half. Without waiting for the guns to be drawn ug, he quietly stepped down. Into office went another, tougher revolutionary, Major General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu...
...Aramburu, a general so distrusted by Perón that the strong man never even gave him a minor garrison command, is a crackdowner. He promptly renamed Admiral Rojas to the vice-presidency. Peronistas can now expect tough treatment...