Word: peronism
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Walkout. Canny Moisés Lebensohn, Radical Party leader, sniffed the heady, Peronista atmosphere and waited his chance for a dramatic move. It came when Peronista Arturo Sampay admitted in an unguarded moment that Article 77, revised to allow Peron to succeed himself, might be restored to its original form after the 1952 elections. Lebensohn leaped...
After several jittery weeks, Juan and Eva Perón seemed more like their old selves again. In fact, they were operating so smoothly last week that it was hard to believe that only three weeks ago Peron was wobbling under army pressure while Evita was in danger of being eased out of public life...
...strike of Buenos Aires newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21) was no nearer settlement; it threatened, in fact, to spread across the nation. Despite the continued absence of newspapers, most portenos had heard-by word of mouth-all about the army's demand that Juan Peron keep his blonde wife out of public life. Evita was back at her desk in the Secretariat of Labor & Social Welfare. One night she appeared to accept the cheers of a Peronista union members' rally. But for once, she made no speech...
...weeks of day & night sessions by Peron's new National Economic Council had done little to stem the nation's tide of red ink. As a last resort, the council decided that Argentina would just have to borrow a lot of dollars. But from whom? With Argentines already owing U.S. businessmen an estimated $400 million, private U.S. banks were unlikely to put up any more. Nor was the World Bank, which Argentina had steadily snubbed, or the U.S. Export-Import Bank...
...Peron, no economist, looked on a possible loan with a politician's cold eye. At the Peronista rally, he melodramatically protested that "before signing [such] a document ... I would shoot myself...