Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swept into office by the biggest majority in modern Argentine history (apparently 304 electoral votes to 72), Presidentelect Juan Peron lost no time getting into action. Though he had still to take the oath and receive the sash of office, he bossed the Government that last week agreed to send some food to Europe (but little for UNRRA), released a blandly conciliatory denial of the U.S. State Department's Blue Book charges, and disavowed all desire of dominating its weaker neighbors...
Another gagging dose was deep in the Government's report: some of the spy suspects had already confessed "under oath that they had a loyalty which took priority over the loyalty owed by them to their own country...
...Self-Respect. Harold Ickes then held a spectacular press conference in the Interior Department's auditorium. His aides, newsmen, photographers and radiomen with recording apparatus swarmed in. In his crusty old voice he made his position doubly clear -either "I had forsworn myself and made false statements under oath or someone else has." He went on the radio: "A man has to live with himself. I have to spend the rest of my life with Harold Ickes and I could no longer, much as I regret it, retain my self-respect and stay in the Cabinet of President Truman...
Tobey: Mr. Pauley has stated under oath that he had done nothing to stop the filing of that suit. Did Mr. Pauley . . . ever tell you that the filing of that Government suit would be bad politically, that several hundred thousand dollars could be raised from California oilmen if they could be promised that the suit would not be filed...
...week's end Senator Tobey looked over the transcript, said that it would how six instances in which Oilman Pauley's testimony had been disputed by other witnesses. Said the Senator: "I hope that all those testifying . . . realize they are doing it under oath...