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Disciplined Disciples. The vote totals, compared with constituent assembly elections last July, told the story. Last week leftist Radical Frondizi pulled approximately 4,000,000 ballots with Perón's backing. His top opponent, moderate Radical Ricardo Balbin, got 2,500,000. Last July, when Perón's disciples cast more than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots, Balbin beat Frondizi...
...Argentina to Frondizi through necessity rather than choice. If the dictator had let his blank-vote order stand, it would have opened the door to odious comparisons between the impressive total he chalked up in July and an almost certainly less impressive total last week. He could not back Balbin, who was likely to carry on the anti-Perón policies of Provisional President Pedro Aramburu. Frondizi, who openly wooed Peronista votes, was the only possible choice...
Despite the fact that he would have preferred Balbin, Aramburu will doubtless be happy to turn the country over to Frondizi on inauguration day, May 1. Day after the election Aramburu invited Frondizi to share a radio and television address to the nation, publicly embraced him on camera. That evening he took the winner home to dinner, later turned a Commerce Ministry office over to the President-elect as temporary headquarters while he studied the country's problems...
This gesture gave him entree into Radical politics, but in the '30s he contented himself mostly with practicing law, reading history and economics (notably Lord Keynes). He opposed Juan Perón from the dictator's first appearance on the national scene. Frondizi joined Radical Chieftain Ricardo Balbin in leading the dogged Radical bloc (44 members ) in the Peron-dominated Congress (160 members...
...Things . . . Balbin and Frondizi ran against Perón in 1951 as Radical candidates for President and Vice President, were overwhelmed by the Peronista machine. Tenaciously. Frondizi set himself to work for another chance. His voice blasted at Perón on dark streets to little knots of approving Radicals. When the dictator eased up just before his fall in 1955. he chose Frondizi to speak for the opposition. Said Frondizi: the Radicals stand for the right "to think, to profess religion, to meet, to publish ideas...