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Determined to strike a deal with the U.S., President Juan Domingo Peron ordered his stooges in Congress to ratify the 1945 hemispheric Act of Chapultepec* and the United Nations Charter too). That made it word-eating week in Argentina...
Only three days earlier Peron's wheelhorse, Senator Diego Luis Molinari, had told fellow nationalists in a Buenos Aires cafe: "We have won, sovereignty is saved" (i.e., the treaty was out). Now he rose in the Senate to ready the majority decision on Chapultepec: "When we are asked if we want this to be a free and independent nation, we cry full of the holy spirit of justice, unanimously and spontaneously yes, for the independence of the Argentine nations." The nationalist gallery clapped thunderously...
Outside noisy nationalists started the first real political demonstration since Peron's election. Somebody climbed the Senate flagpole, lowered the flag to half-mast. Small bands roamed the streets shouting "Peron betrayed us." Police pinched 45, and cracked skulls as of old-this time nationalist skulls...
...Wednesday night-V.J. plus 365-the United Press carried a story from their Buenos Aires bureau of an interview with Dr. Santiago Peralta, Director of Migration in the Peron government. An interview which, on the anniversary of the end of World War II, sounded the first Fascist call to arms for World War III. Peralta announced bluntly that in the near future 1,000 Norwegian quislings would be allowed to enter and settle in the Argentine, and went on to say that arrangements have almost been completed whereby General Anders' notorious Polish Army would also be granted admission...
This pronouncement represents the opening gambit i the grandiose scheme of the Peronistas to increase the population of Argentine in the next fifty years to 100,000,000 people. An amateur ethnologist of the Alfred Rosenberg variety, Peralta plays the same role of racial philosopher i the Peron cabinet as did Rosenberg in the Nazi regime. While sharing Rosenberg's views on Aryans and Jews, he nevertheless believes that Europe is through, that the Continent is "doomed never to return from its slump back into the Middle Ages." The German Gotter-dammerung is complete, now it is the Argentine which...