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...article appearing in your issue of November 6, 1952, about my experiences with the Peron regime, there is one mistaken reference that certainly needs rectification. Explaining the reasons why my citizenship was revoked by the rubber-stamp Peronista congressional majority in June, 1951, your reporter says that I "urged the United States intervene and oust Peron." This statement is entirely false. I never urged any country to intervene to oust Peron, since that is--and should be--the business of the Argentine people exclusively. In fact, it was only the Peronista press--which has slandered me in every conceivable...
What I did do, was to criticize the friendly attitude of the Democratic governments--including the United States--toward the Peron dictatorship which was and still in economy. I particularly referred in my criticism to a "credit" of 125 million dollars extended in 1950 by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to the Argentine government in order to rescue it from its calamitous financial condition. But I never exhorted anybody but the Argentines themselves to stand up and solve our Argentine problem...
From then on Allande was closely guarded by the Uruguay anti-Peron govsouces about what was going on inside the country. He said that the news out of A gontina was more closely censored than "anyone realizes in this country...
...decreased output of wheat in Argentina, once the world's second largest wheat exporter, and said the country was now forced to import at least 6 million bushels yearly from the U.S. Allende cited this and decreased industrial outputs as results of the growing "passive resistence" to the Peron regime...
...referred to strikes of students, traditionally one of the most active political groups in Argentina, which broke out six weeks ago because the government made them join a Peron front organization. In 1946, when Peron came into power, all Argentine university professors were forced to join a similar organization, causing 1600 to resign