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...windup, Dr. Cruz produced none other than Juan Domingo Perón, six times a doctor honoris causa (Argentina has six universities). Arriving by special train with wife Evita, Peró led a motor caravan to the auditorium, through thousands of cheering descamisados. There, in a 70-minute speech, he managed to touch on Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Spinoza. As for himself, he said he was between Hegel and Marx-against both "immoral individualism" and the "insectification of the individual," in favor of what he called "justicialism...
When he was elected President of Argentina in 1946, Juan Domingo Perón had two visible means of political support. One was the army, whose ruling clique he headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop...
Even that change did not satisfy Opposition Delegate Moises Lebensohn. In a bristling speech which Convention President Domingo A. Mercante did not try to stop, he denounced the plan to bring Perón's portrait into the chamber. "Neither in France, Great Britain nor the U.S. has it ever occurred to anybody to place a portrait of the chief of state in the halls of parliament," he shouted...
...parliaments. I was about to say that I did not know of a single case where this is so, but I am mistaken. There is a small country in the Antilles, a small, unfortunate country in which the President re-elects himself time after time-the republic of Santo Domingo. Its national parliament is presided over by the photograph of Dictator General Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo." Cries of "May bien, muy bien" and loud applause rang through the chamber...
...many months, President Juan Domingo Perón had had trouble with his teeth. His dentist, Dr. Carlos Elbio de Oliva Paz, had not been much help. Oliva Paz and Perón had been good friends. Perhaps that was why Perón overlooked the fact that his dentist's claim to have studied in the U.S. was not a matter of record, and that the police had once arrested him for practicing without a license...