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...nations of the Western Hemisphere against "the aggressive policy of international Communism." That is still Topic A for the conference. But the talk in the hallways and cloakrooms will be about an attack on freedom right in the Western Hemisphere: the suppressive policy of Argentina's Juan and Evita Perón against the great independent newspaper La Prensa (see below...
...last chapter of our economic liberation begins with the case of the capitalistic organ La Prensa" cried Evita Perón's newspaper Democracia this week. "Capitalism itself is manifestly unconstitutional, since it stands for free enterprise, whereas the [1949 Argentina] constitution establishes full state control over foreign commerce and stipulates that any domestic enterprise may be defined as a public service and taken over...
Democracia's outburst capped a week of Peronista fulmination against La Prensa and all those, at home & abroad, who had spoken up in behalf of its right to be free and to criticize the regime of Juan and Evita Perón. A special session of Congress met to pass sentence of death on La Prensa by expropriating it, then hesitated and decided instead to condemn the paper to a living death...
Instead, after one presidential luncheon, Evita Perón whisked the U.S. envoy off with a car of ministers on a tour of one of her Social Aid Foundation's new hospitals. The elevators were not yet ready, so she marched the party up & down the seven floors of the building. As they puffed up one stairway, Finance Minister Ramon Cereijo wheezed: "Where's the psychotherapy ward? I'm ready to go in." All agreed that Evita, talking warmly and frankly with "Amiga Miller" about how much she wanted the U.S. and Argentina to be friends...
...improved by turgid Perón speeches proclaiming that not only Communism but capitalism must go. The general might also be told that the U.S. public and press do not cotton to the gagging of La Prensa or the bilious, Kremlin-style attacks on U.S. business by Evita Perón's newspaper, Democracia...