Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run, De Gasperi knew that to prevent a swing to Communism he would need to deliver some promised reforms. The program he announced last week included general promises: land reform (distribution of big estates) and reclamation, stricter tax collections, relief for Italy's two million unemployed...
...Colonels' Revolution that overturned the corrupt, dictatorial regime of President Ramón Castillo, General Arturo Rawson had been one of the few devotees of democracy. For three days, five years ago, he had been President of Argentina. Rawson had passed quickly into history, a black-suited figure destined to spend his days amid the Jockey Club's splendors, while one of the obscure figures of the revolution, a man named Juan Domingo Perón, made the country over...
Last week, on the fifth anniversary of the Colonels' Revolution, General Rawson wrote: "The objectives were very simple; first, to restore administrative morality; second, to re-establish the country in the community of American nations; and third, to return the country to [political] normality." From Buenos Aires, TIME Correspondent Bill Johnson cabled his estimate of what the revolution has accomplished...
...regime. Newspapers which thundered against Castillo's decrees have with but one exception been silenced by Perón's subsidies and newsprint restrictions ; and even great La Prensa is visibly weakening. Recently the government decreed that either Argentines or foreigners may be jailed for such general crimes as 'promoting discords or antagonisms dangerous to the public tranquillity...
...Leader. "The most remarkable change of all has been the emergence from the group of little-known militarists of a President-General who could be confused with no one else in history. With a superb sense of showmanship and a keen perception of the old Hitlerian formula that nonsense begins to make sense if repeated often enough, the President has been molding the public mind to consider him as the economic emancipator of Argentina, even as San Martin was its political emancipator. The fact that Argentina is undergoing one of the worst financial crises of its history...