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Just before U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden emplaned for Washington and his new job as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America, he let off a final blast at Strong Man Peron: "The voice of liberty is making itself heard in this country and I am not of the belief that anyone will be able to smother it." The crowd of Argentines at the airport cheered, shouted "Libertad! Libertad...
Strong Man Juan Domingo Peron, the soldier-opportunist who yearned to be President-Dictator, had tried everything: the trappings and struttings of Fascism, anti-U.S. nationalism, an anti-Communist witch hunt. He had promised the moon to the Argentine working man, the same moon to Argentine industrialists. He had made gestures toward U.S. democracy, and had hinted at lining up (if worst came to worst) with the U.S.S.R. By last week's end, the returns were pouring in and they were not pleasant reading for Colonel Peron...
Rockefeller's resignation, announced the next day (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was no better news. His successor, Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, had been the thorniest thorn in the side of Peron & Co. Said he on taking over his new job: "My policy respecting Argentine and U.S. relations will not alter in the slightest. On the contrary, the larger opportunities of my new post will make my efforts even more effective...
When the military toppled Castillo June 4, 1943, Colonel Juan Domingo Peron & friends retained the state of siege, and' improved on it. They reluctantly abandoned it only when public opinion grew too strong to shush...
...Twenty thousand exhilarated Argentines massed in downtown Buenos Aires. There were shouts of "Death to Peron." One man fought a duel with an umbrella against a sword-wielding police officer. An unknown number of revolvers were more or less harmlessly discharged. Fifty persons were arrested. After three and one half years Argentina's state of siege had been lifted...