Word: lebensohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walkout. Canny Moisés Lebensohn, Radical Party leader, sniffed the heady, Peronista atmosphere and waited his chance for a dramatic move. It came when Peronista Arturo Sampay admitted in an unguarded moment that Article 77, revised to allow Peron to succeed himself, might be restored to its original form after the 1952 elections. Lebensohn leaped...
...purpose of re-electing General Perón," he shouted, "we can no longer take part in this farcical debate." As one man, the 48 Radicals tore up their copies of the new constitution, flung the pieces in the Peronistas' faces and marched out. "We shall return," declaimed Lebensohn over his shoulder. "We shall yet return to write another constitution...
Even that change did not satisfy Opposition Delegate Moises Lebensohn. In a bristling speech which Convention President Domingo A. Mercante did not try to stop, he denounced the plan to bring Perón's portrait into the chamber. "Neither in France, Great Britain nor the U.S. has it ever occurred to anybody to place a portrait of the chief of state in the halls of parliament," he shouted...
...JAMES E. LEBENSOHN...