Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body, which has lain in a "temporary" resting place these past 15 years, will be borne with ceremonial pomp to a new mausoleum on Ankara's highest hill. The mausoleum, reached by 33 marble steps 132 feet wide, will probably be the biggest of its kind, until Evita Peron's or the proposed Soviet pantheon tops it. For three days, Turkey's 21 million citizens will do him honor...
...example, he gave the case of several Prensa editors who had refused to work for the paper after its seizure. Some, Paz said, had been taken from their homes without explanation, left in prison, and then released without having charges preferred. "With a free press to publicize such incidents, Peron could never get away with them. Because of the present censorship, though, no one ever finds out." But, despite the dangers of advocating their former policies of freedom, he felt that the majority of the paper's 1800 employees have remained loyal...
...many in the United States, Argentine dictator Peron's sudden outburst of forgiveness for political exiles was encouraging. But Alberto Gainza Paz, former editor-publisher of La Prensa, sees little that points toward a free Argentina. Believing the latest policy shift to be only a temporary phase, Paz is resigned to continue his voluntary exile until freedom returns to his country...
...aired some gloomy opinions on conditions in Argentina. Comparing them with those of Orwell's 1984, he commented, "Argentina lacks the television mechanism, but waiters in the restaurants and even servants in the home are spying constantly. In place of "Big Brother", posters reading 'Peron Comple' (Peron accomplishes) line the streets. Opposition parties cannot meet, and all newspapers are controlled by the government." As for Peron's sudden wooing of the US, Paz warned that it was merely a corallary to economic need. He felt that the only way that America could help restore freedom to Argentina would...
...motto of the late Eva Peron...