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...Wednesday night-V.J. plus 365-the United Press carried a story from their Buenos Aires bureau of an interview with Dr. Santiago Peralta, Director of Migration in the Peron government. An interview which, on the anniversary of the end of World War II, sounded the first Fascist call to arms for World War III. Peralta announced bluntly that in the near future 1,000 Norwegian quislings would be allowed to enter and settle in the Argentine, and went on to say that arrangements have almost been completed whereby General Anders' notorious Polish Army would also be granted admission...
Missing Witness. One witness did not appear at the trial. In Bucaramanga, Colombia, on the night before he was to board a plane for the U.S. to testify, Arturo Regueros Peralta, a member of Colombia's Congress, publisher of the liberal newspaper El Comunero, was shot. The pro-Nazi section of Colombia's press said it was suicide. Dispatches from Colombia reported it was murder...
Publisher Regueros Peralta dropped Transocean Service when he began to suspect it was doctoring U.S. news. Transocean offered to subsidize El Comunero with cash and discounts on newsprint, if Sr. Regueros Peralta would continue the service. He refused...
Robin Hood in the Jungle. Among those who rebelled was Segundo David Peralta, a bookbinder from Tucuman, who took to the jungle with a band that soon grew to 30 or 40 members. Objects of his wrath were the brokers and big companies, who not only dictated sales prices but sometimes charged as much as 30% interest on loans. Sweeping out of the jungle in organized forays, Mate Cosido* and his well-armed men have staged at least seven big holdups, netting over 90,000 pesos ($21,420). He distributes the loot among the neediest farmers and pickers, thereby assuring...
...Authorities differ on the spelling and significance of Peralta's nickname. Spelled Mate Cocido, it means brewed yerba mate, a native tea, on which the bandit lived during a prison term. Spelled Mate Cosido, it refers to a wound Peralta got in a brush with police, means, in slang, Sutured Conk...