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Cracks in the Clique. Argentina, unlike Bolivia, is neither weak nor pathetic. But her Government is not invulnerable; it has several cracks. Its President, General Pedro Ramirez, pushed into the background by the "Colonels' Clique" headed by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron, does not enjoy obscurity. Within the Clique itself, Peron has serious rivals, who resent his growing power. Most dangerous seems to be Colonel Enrique Gonzalez, Cabinet-ranking Secretary to the Presidency...
...Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, had agreed that its member nations should consult before taking action; they were still consulting last week. Argentina's totalitarian Government, ignored by the Committee and widely suspected of instigating the revolt (a Chilean Communist paper, El Siglo, said that Dictator-Colonel Juan Domingo Péron had boasted of doing so), had hesitated 14 days...
Last week, in Buenos Aires' city hall, handsome, hard Colonel Juan Domingo Péron, Argentine Under Secretary of War, was sworn in as head of the new Secretariat of Labor and Welfare. Around him were the Army officers who, with him, control Argentina and President-General Pedro Ramirez...
...Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, police had prepared sandbag barricades and machine-gun positions. To General Domingo Martinez, Buenos Aires Police Chief, President Castillo gave orders to defend the city. But when the troops marched in the police made it clear that they were acting "to maintain order only" -there was no resistance from them. By 10 o'clock, the President had fled his residence for the safety of the Drummond, where he stayed until the excitement was over. By 3 o'clock the machine guns at the Casa Rosada had disappeared; two hours later General...
...consideration (TIME, Feb. 22). To demonstrate political unity, Jamaica's Governor Sir Arthur Richards publicly shook hands with Norman Washington Manley, democratic, popular Irish-Negro leader of the People's National Party, one time Rhodes Scholar and personal friend of Sir Stafford Cripps. W. A. Domingo, a Negro labor leader, was released from the detention camp where he had been held without hearing for 18 months. Also out of jail was the rambunctious labor demagogue Alexander Bustamante. Governor Richards announced an expansion of public works to reduce unemployment, said that a minimum-wage law would be considered...