Word: aramburu
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Lights burned late in government offices last week as President Pedro Aramburu and his military advisers checked over the intelligence reports on a plot against them; then the officers acted. Cops and Marines burst into a meeting in La Plata, a meat-packing city 35 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, and arrested some 50 persons. Among them were General Heraclio Ferrazzano and Colonel Norberto Ugolini, a pair of cashiered officers, who, loyal to ex-Strongman Juan Perón, fought off insurrectionists at the Rio Santiago naval base during last September's successful anti-Perón revolution. Police...
...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...