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Many Latin American governments responded to President Harry Truman's first statement on Korea by offering their cooperation. Argentina's Juan Peron rose to the occasion by calling on the Chamber of Deputies to complete the long-delayed ratification of the 1947 Rio Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. The pact was swiftly approved...
...jackpot winner had the chance at another question he had long and longingly anticipated. What, asked the announcer, did Bernardo plan to do with his money? Bernardo replied: "I intend to give the entire amount to the Social Aid Foundation ..." The announcer beamed. Everyone thought he obviously meant Evita Peron's richly endowed, much publicized Social Aid Foundation. But Bernardo continued, firmly and clearly: ". . . the Social Aid Foundation of the Socialist Party, of which I happen to be a member." Throwing caution to the winds, the audience burst into cheers...
Ivan refused. An editorial in Eva Peron's own evening Noticias Gráficas announced the inevitable decision: "The authorities who control education have taken no step whatsoever [to counter] the terrific insult . . . Those whose task it is to look after the national culture and pUrity of national virtues have failed...
Before the new understanding, the U.S. had steadfastly refrained from offering help to the tottering Argentine economy, in the pious hope that the need for assistance might persuade Peron to restore full civil liberties and stop acting like a cut-rate dictator. For better or worse, the new U.S. policy would be to help Argentina get up on her feet first, and worry about internal reforms afterward...
Architect of the new policy is Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller Jr., who conferred with Peron in Buenos Aires in February (TIME, March 6). "We hope that once Argentina is on her feet, civil liberties, as we think of them, will be restored," said Miller. "Meanwhile ... we've got to do something positive . . . We're going ahead with...