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...doubted that President Farrell and Vice President Peron wanted the support of the United Nations, and (as a price) were willing to restore to the Argentine people some of their democratic liberties. But spotted through their administration were other powerful politicians who felt that to yield would be fatal. Most notorious were Filomeno Velazco, chief of police, and General Juan Pistarini, Minister of Public Works. Tenaciously, they and their fellows clung to power, preventing the Government's concessions from having much effect. Said Pistarini (according to Vanguardia): "We shall relinquish the Government when frogs grow hair...
...Government of President Edelmiro Farrell and Vice President Juan Domingo Peron still controlled the powerful Army and the Gestapo-like Federal Police, trained by Buenos Aires Police Chief Filomeno Velazco, an expert in torture. If it chose to defy both popular hatred and world displeasure, it might hold out indefinitely...
When the Colonels staged their June 1943 revolution, Fritz polished his military contacts, wangled a reputed $50,000,000 munitions order. But the ex-Austrian was hobbled first by a materials shortage, later by U.S. and British blacklisting. President Edelmiro Farrell and Vice President Juan Peron, tired of Mandl's steady drain on the Treasury, grew more & more dissatisfied with the trickle of cartridges, rifles, hand-grenades and gliders that came from the Mandl factory...
Others feared that Peron was scheming to step, not aside, but into the Presidency. To sound out U.S. and Hemisphere reactions to his candidacy, he gave a carefully worded interview to the Associated Press. In phrases dripping with democracy, he promised elections soon. He buttered labor, slammed "the interests": "Never again will oligarchs buy or coerce the vote of a single Argentine worker...
Juan Domingo Peron, Argentina's sobered Strong Man, was the Man Who Wasn't There. Uninvited because of its formerly pro-Axis, still anti-U.S. attitude, Argentina reappeared as often as Banquo's ghost. Everyone at Mexico City understood that Argentina, right or wrong, cannot be permanently ignored...