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Ever Louder Tones. The most striking evidence of change was a radio speech. For the first time since Perón achieved the presidency in 1946, the government let an opposition politico speak to his countrymen on the air. Over a nationwide network. Radical Party Leader Arturo Frondizi declared that Perón's announced program of pacification "must not be a new form of submission. We want peace, but not at the price of our freedom." Boldly, he called an end to the state of internal war decreed by Peron...
...brave Argentine voices protested publicly against the expropriation. "Liberty is on trial-not the fate of a newspaper alone, but the fate of the country itself is in balance," cried opposition Deputy Arturo Frondizi. He was howled down...
...Peronistas, led by Deputy José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher and boss of the Anti-Argentine Activities Committee which closed dozens of opposition papers last year, could not silence the opposition utterly. Boldly facing the booing government benches, Radical Deputy Arturo Frondizi cried: "Yes, you are full of power-but also full of fear ... If there is any campaign against Argentina outside the country, it is because the regime has liquidated all freedom inside the country...