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...more than four years, Señora Zelmira Anchorena de Gainza Paz, now 81, has phoned Buenos Aires' La Prensa almost every week and demanded of the switchboard operator: "When are you going to give La Prensa back to the owners?" Last week, the switchboard girl answered: "Soon, Señora." Next day, by decree of President Aramburu, La Prensa was taken from the custody of the government, which had expropriated it, and returned to Owner Doña Zelmira and the Paz family. The paper's seizure by Perón, said the decree...
...friends and notables, even left-wing political adversaries. They were there to greet the man who had become one of the symbols of Perón's persecution since he had been arrested in 1951, escaped, and fled abroad. The crowd broke into cheers and tears as Gainza Paz and his wife stepped off the plane from New York. "It is with indescribable emotion that I return to my liberated country," said Gainza Paz in a choked voice. As his well-wishers nearly knocked him down, a squad of police linked arms with some of the welcomers...
...During Gainza Paz's exile, the once-great newspaper founded by his grandfather in 1869 had shrunk from 40 pages to eight, from a circulation of 380,000 to 250,000, from a proud independent paper to a sordid Peronista puff sheet. Since the paper's seizure, loyal staffers had turned to such odd jobs as driving trucks, selling wine, refrigerators and auto parts. Fifteen had spent six months to two years in Perón's jails on charges of plotting revolutions. Many second-and third-generation Prensa employees would meet daily on streetcorners...
...anti-Peronist employees of the famed independent La Prensa, seized by Perón in 1951, threw pictures and busts of the dictator and his wife, Eva. from the building, began publishing the paper minus the masthead slogan "in the era of Perón." Editor and Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz, who has lived in exile in Manhattan, prepared to fly back to Buenos Aires in hopes of resuming control of Latin America's greatest newspaper. Said he: "I will fight for the reopening of all the other [100] newspapers Perón closed or seized...
...Chicago Daily News, Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon Journal, Miami Herald) got word that he will be the first recipient of the La Prensa Prize for American Friendship. The award, established in 1950 by Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, Buenos Aires' exiled publisher of La Prensa, will be made in Rio de Janeiro next month to honor Publisher Knight's "courageous leadership in fighting for press freedom" throughout the Americas...