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...conducted tour of Senora Peron's charitable enterprises, Diplomat Miller said: "No citizen of the Americas can fail to hope for the success of any program to improve the lot of the common people of the country." Reporters from the official press were not quite satisfied. An El Mundo man asked his exact opinion of Senora Peron's work. "I have been deeply impressed," said Miller. "Your visit here," continued the reporter, "reminds us of Ambassador Bruce's words that General Peron was a great leader of a great nation. What do you think of these words...
Squirrels & Scabs. The night before, the government had rounded up workers from the mint and other government printing offices, rushed them down to the plants of the pro-government El Mundo and La Fronda. While police guarded the buildings with machine guns, and Evita Perón's Social Aid Foundation (for the destitute and aged) rushed in bedding and food, the esquiroles (squirrels, i.e., strikebreakers) kept the newspaper blackout from being complete. But the single editions they turned out contained little more than cheesecake pictures and ready-made material including an editorial entitled "Three Years of Legality." Neither...
...President of France did not say a word as the results came in; he just grinned. Plump Vincent Auriol was an old campaigner himself. "Toward the end," a member of his staff confided, "he was giggling." In Rio de Janeiro, 0 Mundo, called Harry Truman's victory "the most sensational news since the launching of the atomic bomb." In London (though U.S. shares dipped), British stocks went up. London's socialist Tribune took credit for not being too greatly surprised, republished a July cartoon showing Harry Truman feeling fine...
...months, newsprint imports had been banned. Now the Government was letting paper in if buyers surrendered part of it for resale to the noisy pro-Perón press. Staunchly independent La Prensa, desperate for newsprint, was asked to give up half its incoming shipments; the more tractable El Mundo chain (one newspaper, six magazines, a radio station) could keep 70%. The warning to the press was clear: angle your stories right to stay in business...
Carlo Batero, a cattle breeder in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, is really Vittorio Mussolini, reported Buenos Aires' EI Mundo. "Well-informed sources," the paper said, are sure that the late Duce's son arrived in January on a freighter and bought a great big. estancia, which he calls "New Italy...