Word: lonardi
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Peronistas as virtual war criminals who would nullify the revolution if given half a chance. Go easy, advised other Lonardi backers, arguing that most Peronistas had served the dictator unwillingly. "Neither victors nor vanquished," ruled Lonardi -satisfying nobody...
...styled "democratic, liberal" navy officers and other military men; a group of vengeful firebrands, jailed or exiled under Perón; the Radical Party and other minority parties that opposed Perón in years past and now together held 18 seats on the 20-member Consultative Council that Lonardi recently set up to advise him. Their Cabinet spokesman: Minister of Interior and Justice Eduardo Busso. Their real leader...
Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas, Lonardi's Vice President, who wants to try 273 former Perónista Congressmen for treason...
...inevitable clash broke out at midweek with a demand from the liberal faction that Lonardi oust the "clerical Fascists" in his Cabinet. Giving in, he fired Bengoa and Goyeneche. But the liberals' pleasure quickly faded when Lonardi wrote out a manifesto to the nation. Said he: "The government prefers that some guilty persons escape rather than permit some innocent persons to suffer" -a plain slap at Vice President Rojas' plan for mass trials. Further inflaming the crackdown group, Lonardi fired Minister Busso...
...Democracy, Yes!" Hastily the Consultative Council met in the Congress building, and while a crowd outside bellowed "Democracy, yes! Nazis, no!" 18 liberal members turned in their resignations in protest against Lonardi's actions. That in effect ended the young government. Through most of Sunday, Lonardi talked to a stream of visiting generals and politicos. Their joint decision was that Lonardi must give way to a leader with a firmer attitude toward the dis credited Perónistas. Exhausted and sick (reportedly from ulcers), he gave...