Word: peronism
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...booklet written in language no nation ordinarily uses unless it is prepared to go to war. The booklets were presented to the South American diplomats by the State Department's urbane Dean Acheson and burly Spruille Braden, onetime ambassador in Buenos Aires and outspoken enemy of Juan Domingo Peron's military regime. Their plain-spoken Blue Book charged that two successive totalitarian Governments of Neighbor Argentina...
...Seriously Compromised." The notorious Major Elias Belmonte Pabon, former Bolivian attache at the legation in Berlin, was an intimate collaborator with the Sicherheitsdienst (a combination intelligence, espionage and sabotage service) officials and received an annual greasing of 20,000 Reichsmarks from the German Foreign Office. The conspiracy, in which Peron & Co. took active parts, was aimed at the overthrow of the Bolivian government, where a pro-axis Putsch was indeed brought off in December...
...last the Argentine man in the street and cantina had someone to shout about besides Strong Man Juan Peron. The new Democratic Union presidential candidate was Radical ex-Senator José P. Tamborini, a porteño (citizen of Buenos Aires) and ex-physician who makes a meager living translating French and Italian authors. He has a weakness for handsome books, spends hours in Buenos Aires' swank, Goya-lined Jockey Club library...
...peace; big business was fed up with share-the-wealth decrees; some labor elements suspected Juan Perón's kept unions, well remembering how many workers the Strong Man had jailed. As for the election-timed 30% pay boost for labor (judged by some to have gained Peron a cool million votes), a taxi driver answered that one: "We earn more," he squawked, "but we spend more. It doesn't make sense...
Copello was supported by the many pro-Franco Spanish priests who have emigrated to Argentina since the Spanish Civil War. But there were dissidents, even within the church. One was famed Bishop Miguel de Andrea, who did not sign the pastoral letter. Instead, he took a slap at Peron demagoguery. To a group of graduating nurses, the Bishop gave a solemn warning: "It is a tragic error to sell liberty for a few social and economic advantages...