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Freedom Liquidated. There was no daylight for La Prensa. This had been the showdown. Peron had, in effect, liquidated his great critic. But, as visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller told Argentina's strong man last week, the brutal suppression of freedom would cost him dearly in his standing with...
Last week Juan Peron showed the world that the totalitarianism in Argentina, however popular with his voters, can take the same form as totalitarianism anywhere, from Mussolini's Italy to Stalin's Russia. With gangster violence and drumhead judgment, his government struck another blow at a great newspaper, La Prensa, that dared to print news unfavorable to his regime. His police hounded and arrested two U.S. correspondents. If there had been any hope of a free press in Argentina, it lay shattered by the work of a night...
...Peron's proletarians acclaimed his action and thundered for more. The bank-clerks' union swore never to cash another La Prensa, check, the petroleum-workers' union never to fuel another La Prensa truck. Eva Peron's General Confederation of Labor proclaimed the Peronista program : expropriate La Prensa forthwith...
...choices: appeal the verdict, meanwhile staying in jail, or sign a paper on his desk and receive in return a presidential pardon, which he was empowered to issue forthwith. The paper was a statement acknowledging the accusation but not their guilt. Shea and McCombe signed. Then, with Juan Peron's "pardon," they walked out into the daylight of Buenos Aires...
Died. Alberto Augustm Dodero, 64, Italian immigrant's son who became one of South America's wealthiest men and freest spenders; of a heart attack; in Montevideo, Uruguay. Aided by loans and contracts from Argentina's Dictator Juan Peron, to whom he had given such thoughtful gifts as a Rolls-Royce, Dodero expanded his shipping business to 382 vessels, the continent's biggest merchant fleet. In 1949 he sold his Compania Argentina de Navegacion Dodero S.A. to Peron's government. For pleasure, Don Alberto had a small land, sea & air fleet all his own, kept...