Word: peronism
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Then, with the observation that "wheat has no political complexion," he sent greetings to Argentina's President Juan Peron. "Here," said LaGuardia, "is an opportunity for Argentina to show its desire to cooperate with the rest of the world." But Buenos Aires promptly reported that Argentina's exportable surpluses of wheat were already committed by sale or donation; that was the reason Argentina had declined to join UNRRA...
This week Tamborini supporters taunted the Strong Man's descamisados (shirtless ones) with a timely twist on Juan Domingo Peron's middle name and the Sunday, Feb. 24 election date: "Domingo [Spanish for Sunday] will fall on the 24th...
...State Department had taken a chance in throwing its haymaker. Argentines, proud of their national dignity, might unite behind Peron as they had when Cordell Hull blasted away at him. That would mean victory for Peron in the forthcoming election. Other Latin nations might jib at lone-handed, stiff-necked U.S. action. But last week press and unofficial reaction throughout the hemisphere backed up the U.S. tough talk. If the Blue Book had not helped Argentina's democratic opposition, neither had it hurt it, apparently...
...Peron & Co. had plotted in the same fashion against the government of Brazil, working through Dr. Raimundo Padilha, Fascist leader in hiding there. The objects: to undermine Brazil's pro-Allied Vargas; gradually to build an anti-U.S. bloc which would include not just a few nations but a whole hemisphere...
...views of the Argentine people the U.S. was really interested in. The angry document was shrewdly timed. In Argentina Juan Peron was up to his belligerent chin in a wild political campaign to get himself legitimized as an elected President. His triumph was by no means as certain as he had thought when his regime rashly promised the people they could go to the polls on Feb. 24. His democratic rival Dr. José P. Tamborini had become threateningly strong. There was even a chance that the election might be fair (see LATIN AMERICA...