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Bolivians had cut down from a La Paz lamppost the blood-smeared body of President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, July 29). But in Buenos Aires the Bolivian coup had loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...
...Peronist press calls Argentina's Supreme Court the "last bulwark of the oligarchy." Peron has apparently decided to move in on it. Deputy Rodolfo Decker, Peronist bloc leader, last week called on Congress to impeach four of the present justices...
Just before Peron put on the sash of office, he brought about Government control of the six great Argentine universities, the Buenos Aires stockmarket, the all-powerful Central Bank, and the Industrial Union (equivalent of the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers). Once inaugurated, Peron paid off some old scores. The Government bureaucracy got the biggest shake-up in a generation; everyone "not identified with revolutionary ideals or imbued with the precepts of social justice" was suspect...
Last Bulwark. Conservative Argentine society was shaken right down to its stirrups when Peron moved in on the Socie-dad Rural, organization and stronghold of the landed aristocracy. Peron remembered the boos he got (in absentia) last year at the Sociedad's famed cattle show. At this year's, he was determined to get the cheers. A first, necessary step was a new and pro-Peron executive committee. Last week, the old executive committee obligingly resigned...
Alias Schacht. To the man of the field and to the great mass of city workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government...