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...while last week, the long-awaited popular revolt seemed to be rising in Argentina. Opposition groups, disgusted with the militarists led by Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, were getting together under the name of Comando Unico (Single Command). Their aim: to throw out all the barrack-room statesmen, set up a civilian government pledged to hold elections...
Troops alerted all over Buenos Aires. At Campo Mayo were 18,000 men who, with the ist and 2nd Infantry Regiments, were ready to strike for the colonels. For the President the nth Cavalry, the 3rd and 4th Infantry stood to arms. Two top colonels, Juan Domingo Peron and Eduardo Avalos, and War Minister Edelmiro Farrell conferred with President Ramirez at his residence. Ramirez backed down, agreed to sacrifice his Foreign Minister and Presidential Secretary. Later he denied that he had considered declaring...
...GOUmen wrangled until 1:30 a.m. One by one they bowed to the inevitable. Finally even Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, dominant GOUman, agreed to break relations. That settled it. Next day came the announcement, with much loud indignation against Germany for abusing Argentine neutrality by using her territory as a spy base-something all Argentines knew about already...
...Neighbors. Little, liberal, democratic Uruguay (pop. 2,000,000) has nervously watched the development of aggressive, Fascist-like nationalism in neighboring Argentina. The group of Army jingoes called "The Colonels," led by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron and nominally headed by President-General Pedro Ramirez, has defied the U.S., the United Nations, its Latin neighbors. Almost certainly "The Colonels" instigated the revolt of Gualberto Villarroel in Bolivia (TIME, Jan. 3., et seq.}. Probably the Argentine junta has plotted similar moves in other countries, will plot again...
...Author. Few of Dumas' novels were more fantastic than his life and ancestry. His father, the mulatto son of one of his grandfather's Santo Domingo slaves, enlisted in King Louis XVI's army as a private. During the Revolution he rose from private to commander in 20 months...