Word: peronism
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...cash in his $25 million fortune to charity; the bulk of his art treasures, spread out over the six houses he owned in Europe, Argentina and New York, were willed to his home city, Barcelona. When Barcelona claimed the paintings, agreeing to pay $56,340 in death duties, Peron's government slapped an embargo on the old masters in Cambo's palatial Buenos Aires residence. Only last year, when diplomatic tempers had reached the boiling point, did Argentina relent...
Argentina's booted ex-Dictator Juan Perón was about to be booted again, this time from his refugee quarters in Panama's Hotel Washington. Official reason: his landlord is the U.S. Government, which runs the hotel for transients, not permanent guests, as Peron seems...
...biggest news event in Latin America last year made jittery reading for the hemisphere's military strongmen. The crash of Argentina's Juan Peron showed with unnerving clarity how swiftly the most deeply entrenched tyrant can be destroyed by aroused public opinion and disenchanted military leaders. By last week strongman regimes in four other nations were showing signs of strain...
...still. He released for quotation a passage from his unpublished book, Might Is the Right of Beasts, saying that his late wife Eva "performed more Christian works in one day than all the priests of my country in their entire lives." As for Argentina's new military rulers, Peron scorned them as "men incapable of governing because their custom is to command . . . They end in chaos and . . . fall later, discredited and hated...
...United Lutheran Church in Amer ica, broadcast his list of the ten top religious news stories of 1955: 1) the illness, recovery and vision of Pope Pius XII, 2) Christian missionaries released by Red China, 3) Evangelist Billy Graham's sweep of Western Europe, 4) Dictator Peron's "failure to choke Argentine Roman Catholics," 5) Princess Margaret's stand for the "indissolubility" of Christian marriage, 6) Lutheran heresy trials, 7) collapse of negotiations for the proposed merger between northern and southern Presbyterians, 8) indecision in some church leadership following the Supreme Court ruling on racial segregation...