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With his election victory safely tucked away, Juan Peron moved last week to square his account with the army. It was stubborn opposition in the army's upper ranks last summer which forced Juan and Eva Peron to drop their brash project of running as a family ticket for President and Vice President. It was a humiliating setback, and the Perons do not forget...
...three armies, plus 25 officers of lesser grade. All had retired at their own request, said a deadpan communique, in order to speed up promotion for younger officers. Ironically, General Solari had put down last September's one-day military revolt, and was later decorated for it in Peron's presence...
...jail terms of from three months to six years, and another 34, three of them generals, were cashiered-all for being involved in the September uprising. Among others awaiting trial is retired General Arturo Rawson, Argentina's President-for-a-day during the 1943 revolution that opened Peron's way to power...
Resuming the executive powers he gave up during the elections, Peron hinted to a visiting labor delegation what might be in store for the next six years: "Up to now I have maintained the traditional political forms because we are in a process of evolution. We are now moving toward a Syndicalist state...
...thing to shut down and seize a great daily, Argentina's Juan Peron has found, but quite another thing to publish it. Since last May Day, when he gave Buenos Aires' La Prensa to "the workers," the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) has struggled to get another edition of the daily on the stands. Twice C.G.T. has set publication dates, but no papers have come out, in part because the government let printing machinery become clogged with rust and dust...