Word: edelmiro
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President Edelmiro Farrell looked like the morning after a hard night. Red-eyed from sleepless bickering with his fellow militarists, he faced the Argentine press. "Gentlemen," he snapped, "a decision has been reached. In a few minutes you will get a document. That...
...last week Buenos Aires seethed with war rumors. By becoming an ally, Argentina might silence (as had Brazil and others) all criticism of her authoritarian regime. President Edelmiro Farrell called his Ministers to the Casa Rosada for a special Cabinet session. Ships of the Argentine state merchant fleet were ordered to scurry for the nearest safe ports. Perón himself rushed to the great Campo de Mayo barracks on Buenos Aires' outskirts, pleaded with the pro-Nazi officer group to agree to war, at least against Japan...
...victory. But the State Department had not reckoned with Juan Domingo Perón. He put himself at the head of the extreme nationalists in the Army who felt that Argentine honor had been smirched because Ramirez had yielded to foreign pressure. Ramirez was forced to resign. Vice President Edelmiro Farrell, Perón's old friend and front man, moved up to the Presidency. Perón, stronger than ever, became Minister of War. The State Department's pressure play had simply increased Perón's power...
...half years. The dominant power in its government "was, and continues to be, in the hands of pro-Axis elements." Therefore, the U.S. concluded that the American Republics and their United Nations associates should "firmly adhere to the present policy of nonrecognition of the [President Edelmiro] Farrell regime" until Argentina demonstrated a change in its policy "by unequivocal acts...
...haters, so nationalist that he could easily be taken for a Nazi. Stronger than ever was Colonel Perón, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor and Welfare, who now became Vice President as well. His new office was noteworthy because the Vice-Presidency had been General Edelmiro Farrell's last steppingstone to the Presidency...