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Tall and erect in a severe black vest and tail coat, Arturo Frondizi laid his hand on the Bible and swore to discharge his duties with "loyalty and patriotism." Cannon in the square outside boomed a 21-gun salute, and the 3,000 people jammed into the 1,000-seat Hall of Congress cheered the return of constitutional government after a decade of dictatorship and 31 months of military rule...
This gesture gave him entree into Radical politics, but in the '30s he contented himself mostly with practicing law, reading history and economics (notably Lord Keynes). He opposed Juan Perón from the dictator's first appearance on the national scene. Frondizi joined Radical Chieftain Ricardo Balbin in leading the dogged Radical bloc (44 members ) in the Peron-dominated Congress (160 members...
...Things . . . Balbin and Frondizi ran against Perón in 1951 as Radical candidates for President and Vice President, were overwhelmed by the Peronista machine. Tenaciously. Frondizi set himself to work for another chance. His voice blasted at Perón on dark streets to little knots of approving Radicals. When the dictator eased up just before his fall in 1955. he chose Frondizi to speak for the opposition. Said Frondizi: the Radicals stand for the right "to think, to profess religion, to meet, to publish ideas...
After Perón's fall. Frondizi expertly maneuvered Balbin out of the Radical leadership. He won financing from industrialists by promising high tariffs; he won support from the Catholic Church by spurning the Radicals' advocacy of legalized divorce; he won Socialist and Communist approval by promises to expand the nationalization of oil, steel, rail, mining, telephone and power. He sharply attacked General Pedro Aramburu's provisional government, which gave him his chance to run. "Where do you stand?" he was asked once as he left Aramburu's office. "Just across the street." answered Frondizi...
...Voters. Most of all. Frondizi did not refer to his record as a Perón fighter, promised to bring Peronistas back into Argentina's political life. That may have cleared the way for his endorsement by Peron. Balbin, tagged as the traditionally suspected "official" candidate, and running on the ticket of a Radical splinter party, could not match the competition...