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Running for President five years ago, Juan Peron campaigned mainly against U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden, who had been rash enough to criticize Peron's dictatorial style. Last week, as the President prepared to run for a second term in 1952, Argentina's government loosed a blast against Peron's favorite electioneering target, the U.S. The attack was launched in the front page of Buenos Aires' semi-official newspaper Democrada, in an editorial signed by "Descartes," a writer generally believed to be Peron himself. Wrote Descartes...
Thus Juan Peron exhibited one of the qualities that distinguish him from most other dictators. Argentina's lawfully elected President is passionately addicted to legalising he will go to any lengths, however ludicrous, to accomplish his ends in a "legal" way. As a result, his five-year regime has been marked by surprisingly little rough stuff; his formula has been approximately 90% cloak and 10% dagger...
...unionists, who knew a good thing when they saw it, acclaimed Eva wildly. Instead of just "Perón! Peron!" the people cried: "Perón! Perón! Evita!" in the big square before the palace. Under her driving command, the big General Confederation of Labor became a docile Pe-ronista instrument, its main function reduced to carrying out orders and staging periodic mass demonstrations in the square. To a friend, Perón confided: "Evita deserves a medal for what she's done for labor. She's worth more to me than five ministers...
...Vivo Perón Viudo!" But while Peron was emasculating his political opposition, he ran into economic storms. By the middle of 1948, his regime had dissipated some $1.2 billion in foreign exchange that Argentina had piled up during World War II. Some of it went to buy the British-owned railways and the U.S.-owned telephone system and to build up a creditable merchant marine. But millions went down the drain in a reckless buying spree to round up foreign equipment for the President's grandiose five-year industrialization plan. On top of that, IAPI, the state trading...
After the bill passed, La Nation, the country's last surviving major independent newspaper, once again took its life in its hands to denounce the Peron regime for violating "the categoric constitutional precept which prohibits Parliament from passing laws which restrict the freedom of the press...