Word: edelmiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...turmoil did not necessarily mean revolution, though anything could happen. Argentines speculated that General Ramirez might give way as President to such extremist colleagues as Colonel Juan Peron, handsome, astute, ruthless Under Secretary of War and head of the Government's Labor Department; or to General Edelmiro Farrell, Irish-faced, hard-boiled Vice President...
President Ramirez, fronting for the Colonels, had already recalled pro-Allied Ambassador Felipe Espil from Washington (TIME, Oct. 18), other Ambassadors from Mexico City, Vichy and the Vatican. Last week an Army man (War Minister Edelmiro Juan Farrell) was put into the vacant Vice Presidency. The Colonels, fearing a coalition of those who favor a break with the Axis, forced the resignation of three Cabinet Ministers (one of them a leader in the June revolution), saw to it that puppets replaced them. Police closed down all Jewish newspapers, lifted the ban before President Roosevelt had denounced this "obviously antiSemitic" action...