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Last week Juan Peron showed the world that the totalitarianism in Argentina, however popular with his voters, can take the same form as totalitarianism anywhere, from Mussolini's Italy to Stalin's Russia. With gangster violence and drumhead judgment, his government struck another blow at a great newspaper, La Prensa, that dared to print news unfavorable to his regime. His police hounded and arrested two U.S. correspondents. If there had been any hope of a free press in Argentina, it lay shattered by the work of a night...
...Never has our family been so united as now," said Anna Maria Mussolini, youngest daughter of the late Benito. In Buenos Aires, on an extended visit with brother Vittorio, who moved to Argentina four years ago and now owns a textile mill, Anna announced that elder sister Edda, widow of Count Ciano, is also thinking of joining them...
Beyond the Pale. The nations of Western Europe, led by France and Britain, find it hard to forget that Dictator Francisco Franco was the protegé of Hitler and Mussolini; they have put him and his army beyond the pale of their defensive alliance. But lately Atlantic pact strategists have been thinking hard about the Spanish army. If the Communists marched across Europe, Franco's men would be needed to fight from the Pyrenees to Gibraltar for the Continent's strategic southwest corner...
Slight, sallow Valdo Magnani, 38, college-trained in economics and philosophy, had joined the party in 1936, fought in Fascist Italy's army (as an artillery captain) until Mussolini's downfall, then switched to the partisan anti-Fascist forces. In 1946 he emerged as Reggio Emilia's ace Communist organizer. Militant, tireless, persuasive, he gained 10,000 new party members for his province in the past two years, a time of dwindling ranks for Italian Communism in general. In 1948 he was handily elected to the national Chamber of Deputies...
...There isn't any difference between Hitler and Mussolini, Tarquin in ancient Rome, the tyrants in Sparta, Charles I of England, Louis XIV and Stalin. They are all just alike. Alexander I of Russia was just as much a dictator as any that ever existed. They believed in the enslavement of the common people...