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...Peron government, which pays Argentine farmers only $1.59 to $1.83 a bushel for wheat, demands from foreign purchasers more than $5 a bushel, payable in hard-to-get U.S. credit. As for the U.S., it had saved next to nothing so far by Charles Luckman's noisy grain conservation plan. The U.S. was still feeding some 90 million tons of grain a year to livestock; a tenth of that would avert next spring's crisis...
...first the Government-controlled papers kept quiet; what was left of the opposition press printed glowing stories. Then the Peron party line was passed along. The pro-Perón La Época, charging that the prize had been "granted with political ends," went to town with a caricature of Dr. Houssay and an attack on the originality and value of his studies of the pituitary gland. "This gland detective," it said, should have been doing something useful like tackling tuberculosis and syphilis. Physiologist Houssay did not reply. He was busy last week getting ready for next month...
...Opposition from President Peron...
...domestic politics, Argentina's Peron has found the Commies useful, and he has made some efforts to play off Moscow against the U.S. in international dealings. But the Strong Man's real sentiments are firmly antiCommunist, and reporters guessed that a concerted drive against Russian penetration is Peron's top business at this week's boundary-line meeting with President Hertzog of Bolivia...
...Solution. Peron, who has no intention of falling anywhere, might plump for a tried-&-true Argentine solution: declaration of a state of siege or nationwide martial law. That way he could silence the opposition, give the Army, which has not fought a war in 75 years, a sense of directing public affairs...