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Democracia's outburst capped a week of Peronista fulmination against La Prensa and all those, at home & abroad, who had spoken up in behalf of its right to be free and to criticize the regime of Juan and Evita Perón. A special session of Congress met to pass sentence of death on La Prensa by expropriating it, then hesitated and decided instead to condemn the paper to a living death...
...debate was stormy and punctuated by the bronze alarm bells ringing for order. The Peronista-packed Chamber of Deputies passed and sent on to the rubber-stamp Senate-which approved it within 100 minutes-a resolution to appoint "a joint congressional committee to intervene and investigate . . . La Prensa, and the firms commercially linked to it, with the purpose of determining a definite program to be adopted ..." Until the Peronista-packed committee made its recommendation, it would in effect control the newspaper, lock, stock and presses...
...Argentine relations were worse last week than they had been in years. Washington had tried hard to understand the Peronista outlook; it had hoped that by using euphemisms for "dictator," granting fat loans and looking the other way when freedom and justice were violated, it could turn Juan Perón away from totalitarianism. But Washington was wrong...
...Miller the impression that he still regarded himself as a U.S. ally. His subordinates predicted that Argentina's behavior at this month's Washington conference of American foreign ministers will prove that he is. But by week's end, the anti-U.S. line of the Peronista press had changed not a whit. The screw was turned yet tighter on La Prensa...
Peron's proletarians acclaimed his action and thundered for more. The bank-clerks' union swore never to cash another La Prensa, check, the petroleum-workers' union never to fuel another La Prensa truck. Eva Peron's General Confederation of Labor proclaimed the Peronista program : expropriate La Prensa forthwith...