Word: justo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second highest papal decoration. Onetime Argentine President Justo received the top decoration, the Supreme Order of Christ...
...tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...Argentina the United Nations lost a friend this week and "prudently neutral" President Ramón S. Castillo an enemy. Death took big, two-fisted General Agustín Justo, 66, ex-President and outstanding candidate for reelection in November. The cause: cerebral hemorrhage...
Like the death six months ago of President Roberto M. Ortiz, General Justo's passing from the Argentine political scene had international importance. Ex-President Justo came back from retirement last year to lead the forces opposing President Castillo's Axis-oriented neutrality. He gave his pledge that on the day he was installed in office he would declare war on the Axis...
...anti-Axis stand was probably motivated by the conviction that with the United Nations lay his country's destiny and his own opportunity for a comeback. For General Justo was a proud Argentine who loved his country well. During the presidential term (1932-38) he had proved himself a tough dictator, but one who was wise enough to see that if he were to bring his nation a voice in international affairs he must bring it out from isolationism. To this end he took an active part in League of Nations affairs, embraced the Good Neighbor policy, tightened Argentine...