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After more than a week at his San Vicente hideaway, Juan Peron returned to Buenos Aires last week to find things no better than when he left...
...part, the President went out of his way to show that he had acted without personal rancor in dispensing with Miranda's public services. On the day after the shuffle, when Peron received the Mexican decoration of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at his right hand. But down the hall at Government Palace, four assistants busily cleared Miranda's belongings out of his office, and at week's end Miranda flew off to play on the beach at Uruguay's Punta del Este...
Shrewd Evita Peron knew a good chance when she saw one. The letter on her desk, addressed to Agustin Americo Merlo of Argentina's Washington embassy staff, was a routine solicitation from the capital's Children's Society, Inc. for a contribution for needy Washington children. Smart Señior Merlo had got the society's O.K. to send the request to Buenos Aires for Evita to peruse...
...Christian." When radiorating Father Virgilio Filippo (TIME, Feb. 16) organized nationalists for Peron in the 1946 elections, Father Dunphy worked and preached against what he called the nationalists' "unChristian" intolerance and lawlessness. For two years thereafter he stuck close to his own parish, occasionally writing letters to such Catholic newspapers as El Pueblo, or Cordoba's Los Principios...
...Catholic Argentina this was a sensation; gossip soon whispered that Peron, had asked his good friend Cardinal Copello, as a favor, to get rid of Dunphy. The Cardinal visited Dunphy at his church last fall and suggested-"very suavely," says Father Dunphy-that he ought to resign. Just before Christmas, police held the priest for eight hours while they tried to make him admit authorship of an anonymous pamphlet called "Liberty," "I am in accord with what it says," Dunphy assured them, "but it is not in my style, and I did not write...