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...Government of President Edelmiro Farrell and Vice President Juan Domingo Peron still controlled the powerful Army and the Gestapo-like Federal Police, trained by Buenos Aires Police Chief Filomeno Velazco, an expert in torture. If it chose to defy both popular hatred and world displeasure, it might hold out indefinitely...
Argentine optimists dreamed last week of adding another monument to the overdecorated parks of Buenos Aires. The hero: their Vice President and flexible strong man, Juan Domingo Perón. If he stepped aside and gave the nation a fair and free election, no statue would be too good...
Excluded from the discussions and benefits of the Mexico City Conference (see INTERNATIONAL), Argentine was not friendless. On virtually every ship from England came eager British salesmen with seductive catalogues. The British Chamber of Commerce in Buenos Aires submitted to Vice President Juan Domingo Perón a plan for renewing British-Argentine trade relations after the war. On the list were machinery, boilers, busses, locomotives, nearly everything Argentina needs...
...Juan Domingo Peron, Argentina's sobered Strong Man, was the Man Who Wasn't There. Uninvited because of its formerly pro-Axis, still anti-U.S. attitude, Argentina reappeared as often as Banquo's ghost. Everyone at Mexico City understood that Argentina, right or wrong, cannot be permanently ignored...
Behind this war whoop was strong-man Juan Domingo Perón's and his cohorts' fear of the effects of Argentina's hemispheric isolation. They would desperately like, even in absentia, to curry favor at the inter-American conference in Mexico City. To rig up some semblance of democratic thinking and pro-Allied feeling, Argentina has recently...