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Last week, as usual, U.S. policy in Latin America was up against an obstacle: Argentina, which refused to be a Good Neighbor. Foremost, though not the loudest leader of this recalcitrance was Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, at present serving slightly behind the scenes as Acting Minister...
...cold fact is that a great many Argentines applauded General Perlinger. His slap at the Yankee Ambassador was good politics. It may even have helped General Perlinger in his rivalry with the Argentine Government's jingo boss, Colonel Juan Domingo Peron, who has recently shown some small signs of willingness to come to terms with...
Like Columbus himself, Morison has made four voyages of discovery. In his relentless search for new material on the Admiral's voyages, Morison cruised the Caribbean by yawl (1936-1937): traced Columbus travels along the coast of Santo Domingo (1939); crossed the Atlantic from Palos, Portugal (1939) in an expedition consisting of a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch; and combed the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas (1940) in the ketch. The actual writing of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" began at sea, off the Azores in 1939, and was published in 1941. Called "Columbus Junior...
...Argentine Government, dominated by fascist-minded Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, last week ordered all agencies to stop delivering or accepting news for the United Press and its Argentine subsidiary, Prensa Unida. This was intended to hit the foreign news pages of La Prensa, the Government's most telling critic, and other papers. It was also a blow at the influence of the U.S., which Colonel Peron considers the principal obstacle in the way of his ambition to organize an Argentine-dominated bloc in southern South America...
Argentine nationalists put on a show last week in front of the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Waving flags of Argentina, Spain, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile, they shouted "Down with the Yankees!" Loud were the cheers for the new President, Edelmiro Farrell, stooge of Fascist-minded Colonel Juan Domingo Perón. Loud were the jeers for the U.S., which had failed to form a united hemisphere front against his recognition...