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Buenos Aires bulged with political gossip. Most pungent rumor was that onetime President Agustin Pedro Justo was quietly readying a comeback. Many party bigwigs, already culling candidates for the national elections in 1943, derisively termed him "a political candidate in search of a party." But veteran politicos, recalling the General Justo of old, added two & two, got approximately four...
...Sept. 7, 1822, at Ypiranga near Sao Paulo, Brazil's Prince Regent Pedro received a batch of dispatches from Portugal telling of oppressive measures planned for the colony. Then & there Prince Pedro uttered what Brazilians now call the Grito de Ypiranga: "Independence or death!" He revolted against his father the Emperor, declared Brazil independent, became its first monarch, Dom Pedro I. Although Brazil later overthrew his son, Dom Pedro II, and became a republic, Brazilians this week celebrated the 119th anniversary of their independence with as little animosity toward Portugal as U.S. citizens now feel toward Great Britain...
...glancing out of the window of his office in pillared, grey Moneda Palace, Santiago's White House, Pedro Aguirre Cerda can look across the Calle Morande to the scene of the massacre that made him President of Chile. On Sept. 5, 1938, the Nacista Party of an ineffectual little Hitler named Jorge González von Marées tried to stage a Putsch in behalf of onetime President General Carlos Ibañez del Campo. In the course of the proceedings 60 Nacista youths and a couple of innocent insurance salesmen who had barricaded themselves in the Caja...
...Martín bought a piece of one of La Boca's slum-strewn blocks and gave it to the municipality on condition that it erect there a school of graphic arts exclusively for La Boca's moppets. The school was built, named the Escuela-Museo Don Pedro...
...Adolf Hitler, Popular Front President Pedro Aguirre Cerda of Chile curiously sent a May Day posy of greetings-"best wishes for your personal happiness...