Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate student from Argentina who says he was tied to a table and tortured with live electric wires by Peronist police, is sending a letter today to the Washington assembly of American foreign ministers charging that Peron sides with Russia in the world struggle against communism...
...student, Walter M. Beveraggi-Aliende 4G, lodged a protest last October with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights charging the Argentine government with unjustly imprisoning and torturing him. He called on the U.N. to take action against the Peron regime, because the U.N.'s Declaration of Human Rights was "ineffectual without implementation...
...letter to the foreign ministers points to the earlier protest and charges that in crushing democratic forces, Peron is furthering the aims of communism and aiding Russia...
...Peron is already playing from strength, why did he find it necessary to discover nuclear fusion at this time? It could be simply an attempt to demonstrate his slogan-Peron Gets Things Done. It could be a move to increase his international prestige, or to draw some attention away from the La Prensa incident. But in any event, assuming that Peron's scientists have not really discovered what makes the sun burn, the atom announcement brings the Argentine satrap a little bit closer to the scientific imperialism of the Nazis and Communists...
...Thus far Peron has confined his aggression to the region south of the Plata and east of the Andes. But there is no guarantee that he will not eventually expand his operations and give his neighbors more than the slight case of jitters they are now experiencing. Though the American countries may not yet be ready for action against Argentina, they should make it clear at their conference that they will act strongly if and when Peron's aggressive tendencies get out of the "purely domestic" state...