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...Instrument. Perón also bludgeoned his way into control of a mouthpiece for his dreams and promises: Buenos Aires' powerful afternoon newspaper Critica (circulation 250,000). The strategy had been violence. Perón's plug-uglies had made sporadic raids on democratic Critica, had been met with fierce resistance from determined employes. One sortie was spearheaded by 5,000 street-fighters and backed by four armored cars and 100 police...
...Labor Secretariat last week turned loose on Buenos Aires. Compared to the 500,000 democratic Argentines who had last month swelled the gigantic "March for Liberty," the Perónistas were small in numbers. But, aided by the police, they fought a pitched battle for the plant of Critica, a democratic newspaper, chalked "Death to the Jews" on city walls and intimidated other workers in the most paralyzing strike in Argentine history...
...next night, backed by soldiers, the hoodlums in white attacked the newspaper Critica and tried to burn its building. Critica telephoned for police, but none came. So the newspaper sounded the siren on its roof. The victory crowd rushed up, drove out the Government forces at the cost of two dead, many wounded...
Fiery, Fascist-hating Raul Damonte Taborda was really in a pickle last week. The man who as chairman of Argentina's "Dies Committee" exposed the Fascist fifth column in his country (TIME, Sept. 22, 1941), who later, as editor of the pro-Allied Critica, pounded the neutrality policy of the Castillo Government and its successor, was wanted by the police of President Pedro Ramirez and wanted badly. For a week he had not slept at home. Now, with an order out for his arrest, he had found temporary sanctuary in the Uruguayan embassy in Buenos Aires. How long...
...weeks ago he was called up for questioning about his investigating committee. His case was clear; he was released. Now the Government was trying another tack: in its current "cleanup" campaign (TIME, Sept. 13), it got around to looking into certain iron deals in which Damonte had participated. If Critica's hard-hitting editor could not be got one way, another way might serve...