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...Middle East during the war, later went into the Balkans as a State Department coordinator for the U.S. Information Service ("As if anyone could coordinate the Balkans"). He was later TIME Bureau Chief in Buenos Aires, where he spent two days "in one of Juan Peron's jails for his stories on the confiscation of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, ?951). In his talks the thing that impressed him most, said Shea, was how well informed his listeners were. Said he: "They are certainly more savvy than when I was in school. There is a healthy interest...
...headed south this week for more looking and listening, it appeared that one of the key points of his tour might be Argentina, which was included in the itinerary only at the last minute and after notable White House reluctance. In Buenos Aires that old yanqui'-baiter Juan Peron showed every sign of getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the U.S. President's brother. Peron had recalled personable Ambassador Hipolito Jesus Paz from Washington, presumably to help organize the welcome. Last week his regime suddenly let up on its campaign to drive U.S. news agencies...
...Peron had by no means captured all Argentina's bomb-setters, as another noisy burst at week's end showed. Nor was it yet known who-in or out of the government -set off the bombs in mid-April which inspired the burning by Peronistas of the famed old Jockey Club (TIME, April 27). Said the President: "Other terrorists can always rise. I will combat them with all my force. My job is being a general, and therefore, to fight, and my only desire is to die with my boots...
From his balcony on May Day, Juan Peron declared war on the big U.S. news agencies. The Associated Press, the United Press and the International News Service, he shouted, "have represented the Argentine situation as a situation of crisis . . . through an infamous campaign of lies." Last week he struck...
Buenos Aires' once great independent newspaper. La Nation, muffled but not silenced by Peron. quit printing A.P. and New York Times service reports. The government canceled the U.P.'s right to use radio facilities to transmit news to 16 provincial newspaper clients. By week's end, dispatches from the three big U.S. news services had disappeared from Argentine newspapers...