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Argentina's Minister of Interior summoned newsmen to his office last week and officially confirmed a red-hot rumor. It was true, said Minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi, that the government of President Juan Perón had "intervened," i.e., taken over the governments of the provinces of Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero and Tucuman. Perón had summarily dismissed the governors, legislatures and all municipal authorities in the three provinces, and appointed three "interventors" with dictatorial powers, including authority to supervise the provincial courts...
...making the Plate a thoroughfare again, and after the election last November of Luis Batlle Berres (TIME, Dec. 13) as Uruguay's new Council President, both sides agreed to a midriver meeting between Batlle Berres and Argentina's Interior Minister (and acting Foreign Minister) Angel Gabriel Borlenghi. Last week, as a result of that meeting, Argentina abolished the police permit for travel across the Plate, and on both sides of the river ferryboats promptly took aboard crowds of passengers...
...kept right on with the sniping. In the province of Córdoba, the legislature voted to withdraw all subsidies from Roman Catholic schools. In Buenos Aires, the Peronista newspaper Democracia called for the removal of Roman Catholic "idols" (i.e., religious statues) from schools. Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi signed a decree authorizing non-Catholic religious organizations to provide "material and spiritual help" in hospitals and prisons and charitable institutions-a privilege previously reserved to the Roman Catholic Church. And persistent rumors had it that Peron was even getting ready to put an end to the special constitutional status...
With a sure instinct, Juan Perón immediately turned the demonstration into anti-U.S. propaganda. After two days in jail, the offenders were brought into the office of Minister of Interior Angel Borlenghi, where they were told that, except for one Máximo Guillermo Mantel, they would all be freed through presidential mercy. A search of Mantel's house, said Borlenghi, had turned up a diary with an entry under July 4 which read: "Independence day of the United States. The most glorious of all days. Our big sister." Thundered Borlenghi: "This proves that this episode...
...long run calls the tune in Argentina, had handed Perón a list of demands. Among them: 1) make Evita drop all political activity; 2) form a new cabinet retaining only War Minister Humberto Sosa Molina, Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia and Interior Minister Angel C. Borlenghi; 3) forget the foreign policy hokum of a "third position"-between the capitalist U.S. and Communist Russia-and patch up relations with the U.S. and Britain; 4) take immediate steps to stop inflation...