Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the candidates proposed for the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize last spring were Columnists Drew Pearson and Eleanor Roosevelt, Argentine President Peron (with wife Eva) and Britain's Lord Boyd Orr, former head of U.N.'s Food...
President Juan Peron last week took steps calculated to transform his clumsy authoritarian government into an up-to-date dictatorship. With laws rammed through the closing session of Congress (43 were passed in five hours), the President did away with 1) free political discussion of himself, his wife or his regime, and 2) any future election threat to his rule...
...underline his intentions, Peron last week made a direct attack on Radical Leader Ricardo Balbin. Balbin, who had made a speech in which he called Peron a dictator, was accused of having violated the Desacato law. Peron sent word to Congress that he should be deprived of his parliamentary immunity so that he could be tried by a federal judge...
When the Peronista majority did as it was told, the 40 radical deputies in the 188-member Congress staged an unprecedented scene. One Radical took copies of Peron's new constitution, tore them to bits and threw them in the air. Another smashed a cup and saucer, skimmed the pieces at Chamber President Hector Cam-pora. Still others threw books, pens and pencils at their Peronista colleagues, meanwhile shouting oaths and obscenities. Balbin meanwhile had made a farewell speech and announced that he would present himself before a judge for trial...
Every morning, when Education Minister Oscar Ivanissevich comes to work, he goes through a little ceremony. First he bows deeply before the portraits of President Peron and la Señora. Then, flinging open the French windows, he fills his lungs with 100% Argentine air. Finally he shouts ecstatically: "Good morning, my Fatherland...