Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Militar, the Argentine Army officers' club in B.A., is stiff and dignified enough to be mistaken for the Foreign Office on the other side of the Plaza San Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte de Perón. But they did not don furs & feathers out of love for la Señora. This was a command performance arranged by Doña Ines Serpa de Sosa Molina, wife of Peron's Minister of War, to make up for snubs that Señora Peron...
...Strings. Evita was only one issue between Perón and the Army. It would not be so easy to clear up the other: Perón's economic policies. Unlike other military Presidents in Argentine history, Perón has two strings...
...Russia's defeated enemies, the Finns are paying the highest per capita reparations: $300 million, ending in 1952. But Russia, though tightening every possible screw in the treaty terms, has not sprung any surprises and has permitted the Finns, by & large, to run their own country in their own way. Under this treatment, which calls mainly for hard work, the industrious Finns have thrived...
...Clue. In Buenos Aires, Radical Deputy Raúl Uranga thought he knew who had given Paraguay's dictator the hypo. He and his fellow opposition deputies had proof, said Uranga, that Perón had helped Morinigo. He wondered out loud if there was a connection between the arms for Morinigo and a new appropriation earmarked for "other expenses." Uranga set off an uproar in the Chamber of Deputies, but no Peronista answered...
...Prediction. At the Rio Conference (see The Hemisphere), Morinigo's Foreign Minister, Dr. Federico Chaves, fresh from dining with Perón, .said that the elections, which Morinigo had been promising for six years, would be held immediately. He could and did predict the winner: the Colorado Party, headed by Morinigo. In this forecast, plain Paraguayans could find one consolation: if the rebels had won the war, it would only have meant swapping one dictatorship for another...