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...American Affairs chief, Henry Holland, called in Argentina a year ago, he diplomatically saluted President Juan Perón as "a great Argentine"-a judgment very much out of fashion among the revolutionaries who now control the country. But when Holland returned to Argentina last week, he found President Pedro Aramburu and his government quite content to forget it and get on with friendship as usual. Holland twice chatted cordially with Aramburu and held lengthy talks with Aramburu's No. 1 economic advisor, Raúl Prebisch. They agreed to go ahead with the $60 million U.S. loan...
Major General Pedro Aramburu, who took over as President of Argentina a fortnight ago on a platform of tougher crackdown on Peronismo than his go-slow predecessor, last week cracked down in measures both symbolic and practical...
...Argentine presidency from Juan Perón, the anti-Perón revolutionary movement split like an overripe melon-and moderate Eduardo Lonardi was in the wrong half. Without waiting for the guns to be drawn ug, he quietly stepped down. Into office went another, tougher revolutionary, Major General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu...
Spain's Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz is a man born out of his time. In his pastoral letters he has longed for the days of the "meritorious Inquisition"; he has repeatedly attacked Franco's government for too much toleration of Protestants, and he has berated the citizens of his diocese, Seville, for such licentiousness as dancing and going to the movies. Last year the Vatican curbed him through the appointment of an archbishop coadjutor; shortly afterwards, a spate of anti-Vatican leaflets was rumored to have originated in the cardinal's palace itself...
...night late in 1944, when the Zane put in at San Pedro for repairs, Lieut. Wouk and a few fellow officers went out on the town. After all the bars had closed, one of the men remembered a birthday party being given for the boss of a file clerk he knew. "So we all barged in. I made a date with one of the file clerks for lunch the next day. All through lunch the girl raved about her boss, this beautiful, witty, talented creature. Naturally I went back to her office to take a second look, and I made...