Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the practiced ease of old troupers, the Perónista majority in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies ran through the routine of ejecting another Radical member last week. For the fourth time in 18 months the pretext was the same: in a speech last month Deputy Atilio E. Cattáneo had been guilty of the "gross misconduct" of criticizing President Juan Domingo Per...
Soon after he disappeared, Cattáneo presented to the Congress, by mail, support of his charges that Perón had grown rich in office. Listing the names and addresses of business firms which he said could confirm his statements, he described the President's San Vicente country estate (which Perón calls a modest rural retreat) as a lavishly decorated multimillion-peso layout with a large swimming pool, elaborate lighting and watering systems, sumptuous furnishings and marble fireplaces. Cattáneo's charges and his offer of proof made scarcely a ripple...
...months, President Perón has been steadily tightening the screw on such opposition as still exists in Argentina. Oppressive new laws have been ground out by a congress systematically weakened by the liquidation of opposition deputies. Over 20 anti-Perón periodicals have been closed up in the past five weeks; charges of libel and account-juggling have been brought against the leading independent dailies La Nación and La Prensa (TIME...
...speech last fortnight, Perón disclosed for the first time what all this was leading up to. He would like a new "loyal opposition" party, with the accent on loyalty-rather than opposition-to Peronista ideas. "If I could bequeath something great to the republic," the President mused, "my legacy would be my party-and opposing it a second one, organic and decent. At present in opposition there are only political gangs . . . We must put an end to political gangs...
Going even further, his loyal wife, Evita, indicated last week that she thought the present kind of opposition little short of blasphemy. In a rousing speech to a women's trade-union group, she cried: "I sometimes think that President Perón has ceased to be a man like other men-that he is rather an ideal incarnate! For this, our movement may cherish him as its one leader without fearing that he will disappear on the unhappy day that Perón personally is missing...