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...believe the United States will continue to make its contributions to the world, along with Argentina (in spite of Presidente Peron...
...their special Argentine plane stepped ten A.F.L. leaders. They had come to Buenos Aires at the invitation of Juan Peron and his General Confederation of Workers (C.G.T.). They also intended to "survey" Argentine labor and to find out whether C.G.T.'s 800,000 card holders (about 60% of all Argentine workers) would make suitable members for a projected Inter-American Federation of Labor. At week's end, though one delegate complained of being taken on "Russian tours," all were still hopeful that the Inter-American Federation could be formed, as a rival to the left-wing Latin-American...
...engineers and New Dealers) was also in Buenos Aires last week. Led by earnest, social-conscious Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired, and onetime deputy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, the first 13 experts of the newly formed Inter-American Construction Corp. were already consulting with Peron's five-year planners. Their purpose: 1) to sell Argentina U.S. technical know-how for the plan's 69 hydroelectric projects, port, canal and irrigation works; 2) to sell for U.S. manufacturers $2 billion worth of turbines, trucks, tools and necessary materials. Among the I.A.C.C. experts are Engineers...
Welcome Addition. Next day Peron announced even more impressive news. With an eye cocked on Washington, where important U.S.-Latin American policy decisions are brewing, he announced that his Government would buy (not seize) the $100,000,000 assets of 60 Axis firms in Argentina. Said the State Department with new cordiality: "An important step ... a welcome addition to the measures already taken in respect to Nazi educational and other institutions...
Booking Agent. In Rome, an extraordinary Argentine emissary had already begun the selecting. He was the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva, member of the Salesian order and brother of President Peron's military secretary. His mission: to find in Italy and Spain (while Diplomat Adolfo Scilingo scouted the rest of Europe) the 250,000 workers, preferably skilled factory hands, whom Juan Peron needs for his five-year plan...