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That sample of naval power was enough for the loyalist generals still holding out in Buenos Aires. Peron and his top followers bugged out to foreign embassies, leaving in charge an interim junta made up of 14 not-so-Peronista generals. Next day members of the junta boarded a rebel cruiser in the Plate, agreed to surrender their authority to a government headed by General Lonardi. Before handing over the capital of Argentina to the rebels, the short-lived junta happily carried out a final operation: disarming the red-armband fascist bullyboys of Perón's Alianza Popular...
Lonardi & Co. lost no time undertaking a brisk spring housecleaning. Jail doors flew open to let out Peron's political prisoners. New-broomed out of office were Peron's provincial governors and city officials. Lonardi dissolved the federal Congress, ordered all Peronista members arrested pending investigation. Elections were promised within eight months...
...government announced that the provinces of Presidente Peron and Eva Peron would resume their old names...
Curfew in Rosario. Amid the joyous uproar it was easy to forget that some Argentines were sorry to see Juan Perón go. The grievances recited by General Lonardi-that Peron subverted the laws, violated constitutional rights, mismanaged the economy, packed the courts, burned churches and permitted vast graft-were all true enough. But Peron also gave organized labor, which the old. established parties had never bothered to court, a new sense of dignity and importance-that was the real secret of his success...
Political Outlook. Reportedly a middle-road conservative without party affiliation. Nationalistic, in the Argentine army tradition, but not rabidly so Prospects. Clearing away the rubble of the shattered Perón regime is only the beginning. Problems are mainly political; economic ailments nagged the country under Peron. but Argentina is a basically rich country with wonderfully fertile soil probably needs little economic doctoring beyond a healthy dose of freedom. Toughest task is likely to be dealing with the sullen labor-confederation members who won substantial gains under Peron and hated...