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...when Harry Truman appointed him Ambassador to Poland in 1947. Griffis expressed the belief that Poland "will never become Communist." Two years later, with the Polish Communists in full control, Griffis was sent to Argentina, quickly got on good terms with Juan Perón and wife Evita. He worked hard for better trade relations between the U.S. and Argentina, but he angered the press corps and distressed the State Department by glossing over the undemocratic aspects of the Perón regime. "As human beings," he said in one speech, "you cannot enter a room with...
...various speeches, Balbin had mentioned another subject-Evita Perón. "The public charities of the President's wife," Balbin once said, "seem to redound to her private good." Another time, Balbin remarked: "Social justice for her can be summed up as her own economic betterment." Observers believed that it was disrespect not so much to the President as to the President's wife that had earned Balbin his harsh sentence...
Last week Argentines celebrated the fifth anniversary of Loyalty Day, commemorating Juan Perón's final accession to power. As the high point of a full week of exhibitions, dedications and oratory, 100,000 descamisados gathered in Buenos Aires' historic Plaza de Mayo to see Evita Perón accept a glittering necklace of diamonds and emeralds as "a gift from the [Argentine] workers." The bauble was valued at 600,000 pesos ($42,254) and presented on the workers' behalf by the secretary of the General Confederation of Labor, which is bossed by Evita...
...political rumors out of Buenos Aires implied that Evita Perón, wife of the Argentine President...
...first advice to the women was to stop wasting meat and to use leftovers. When he and Evita first moved into the presidential residence, the President added, "the monthly food bill was 12,000 pesos. Now I barely spend 1,200-including the servants' food." They had done it, he said, by planting a vegetable garden and acquiring some chickens and cows...