Word: disrespected
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Juan Perón has his own technique for silencing critics without making too many martyrs. Two weeks ago, Radical Party Leader Moises Lebensohn received a one-year "conditional" jail sentence for showing "disrespect" to Perón in a campaign speech. The condition: Lebensohn goes free, but if he speaks out again in the next five years, he can look forward to serving a double term...
Labor M.P.s scurried around getting signatures to a note of apology disassociating themselves from Churchill's "insulting reference," sent it off to Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Churchill apologized, too. Said he in a public statement: "I am sorry if any remark of mine . . . should seem to imply disrespect to the Italian people." Shortly after, Churchill developed a localized staphylococcal infection (boils), was ordered to rest by his doctor...
Last week President Peron ordered a pardon for Balbin because "a definitive sentence [had] not yet been pronounced" on him. With these bland words, Peron disarmed his critics. Balbin went to his home. But the law of desacato (disrespect for public officials), under which Balbin had been sent to jail, remained very much in effect...
Under the "law of disrespect" passed a year ago by the supine Argentine Congress, the verdict also deprived Balbin for life of the right to vote or hold public office. During his prison term, he will be legally unable to act as father to his three children and will have no power to manage his modest property...
...mentioned another subject-Evita Perón. "The public charities of the President's wife," Balbin once said, "seem to redound to her private good." Another time, Balbin remarked: "Social justice for her can be summed up as her own economic betterment." Observers believed that it was disrespect not so much to the President as to the President's wife that had earned Balbin his harsh sentence...