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Never before in Argentina had a President flouted tradition by serving consecutive terms; never before in Argentina-or any other country in the hemisphere-had a woman been groomed for Vice President. For the smashing of such precedents, a mere Peronista party nomination (to be had at the crooking of a finger) was not enough. The nomination had to appear to be a reluctant surrender to the irresistible popular will. Huge crowds and tremendous noises were required. Therefore the rally. The scenario called for the mob to shout for Perón & Perón until all Argentina had heard...
...succeeds never sought the Foreign Minister's job at all. An ardent nationalist intellectual with good family connections in the Peronista Party, Hipólito Paz asked Perón one day in 1949 to make him vice consul in Mallorca so that he could write a novel there. Perón, having just sacked overambitious Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia, was at that moment in the market for a Foreign Minister of a more unobtrusive type. He picked Paz, who has made a modest success in the job as a 100% loyal Peronista...
...Peronista papers print advertising too. But they got no telegrams from the Ministry of Finance...
Tools of Power. Perón recently told a friend: "These are my three instruments of power-the C.G.T., the Peronista Party, and the Peronista women's party." The two significant things about this statement: i) Ex-Colonel Perón did not even mention the army, and 2) Evita bosses two of the three key groups...
Already an informal campaign is under way for Evita as Vice President. Last week Hector Campora, president of the Chamber of Deputies, gave the word to Peronista Congressmen to start work for Mr. & Mrs. in '52. The only doubt seems to hinge on whether the idea is too shocking to the Argentine tradition of male superiority. If Eva gets the green light, there may be no limit. She has already risen to greater heights of power than any woman in Latin American history...