Word: peronism
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Dictator Juan Peron, always at pains to keep his dirty work legal, executed a maneuver last week that gave the sanction of the law to the strangling of La Prensa. By terms of the law, the great independent newspaper was expropriated by the government...
...graduate student from Argentina who says he was tied to a table and tortured with live electric wires by Peronist police, is sending a letter today to the Washington assembly of American foreign ministers charging that Peron sides with Russia in the world struggle against communism...
...student, Walter M. Beveraggi-Aliende 4G, lodged a protest last October with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights charging the Argentine government with unjustly imprisoning and torturing him. He called on the U.N. to take action against the Peron regime, because the U.N.'s Declaration of Human Rights was "ineffectual without implementation...
...letter to the foreign ministers points to the earlier protest and charges that in crushing democratic forces, Peron is furthering the aims of communism and aiding Russia...
...said they kept demanding he confess to an alleged complicity with American citizens he never knew in an imaginary plot aimed at the assassination of Peron. "I told them I would rather die than admit to such a falsehood," he said...