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...profaned by thousands of eager Argentines who stormed its glass-and-wrought-iron doors, jammed its dining rooms and lobby, crowded the street outside. They had come to applaud an unusual spectacle: a U.S. Ambassador conducting what amounted to a political rally against the Government of Strong Man Juan Domingo...
Strong Man Juan Domingo Peron, the soldier-opportunist who yearned to be President-Dictator, had tried everything: the trappings and struttings of Fascism, anti-U.S. nationalism, an anti-Communist witch hunt. He had promised the moon to the Argentine working man, the same moon to Argentine industrialists. He had made gestures toward U.S. democracy, and had hinted at lining up (if worst came to worst) with the U.S.S.R. By last week's end, the returns were pouring in and they were not pleasant reading for Colonel Peron...
When the military toppled Castillo June 4, 1943, Colonel Juan Domingo Peron & friends retained the state of siege, and' improved on it. They reluctantly abandoned it only when public opinion grew too strong to shush...
...group of Argentine generals and admirals strode into Buenos Aires pink and peeling Government House. On the desk of horse-loving, horse-faced President Edelmiro Farrell they plunked down a memorandum. Its message: they approved Farrell's promise to hold free elections; they opposed the efforts of Juan Domingo Perón (Vice President, War Minister and Labor Secretary) to get himself elected President ("We disapprove of proselytizing ... by those holding public office...
...country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...