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...night eight years later, during Dictator Juan Perón's church-burning war on Catholicism, the same bomb-hurling gangs switched from Jews to Catholics, beat up friars (one was killed) and tried to catch anti-Peronista Father Cucchetti. To his hiding place came a friendly visitor-Rabbi Schlesinger. By last week their friendship had resulted in Latin America's first interfaith union: Movimiento de Confraternidad Judeo-Christian...
...most of Perón's ardent followers in Argentina would be cleared. A ban on political activity was lifted for 34,791 Peronistas. Another 6,500 got the right to resume labor union activities-just in time for an all-out fight for control of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). A new government interventor for the C.G.T. was appointed last week by Frondizi and instructed to hold free elections within 90 days. Peronista-dominated unions were favored to win a close race for control of the huge (3,000,000 members) organization...
Frondizi soon got clear evidence that diehard Peronistas may confuse amnesty with a license for riot. At a military parade, a segment of the crowd shouted "President by Perón's orders!" and sent up a barrage of balloons bearing colored pictures of Perón and his late wife, Eva. One balloon floated by Frondizi's face and was snared by an aide. All through the afternoon, Peronista demonstrations flared up in central streets, but Frondizi's new police chief sent in cops with tear gas to disperse the mobs. It was an encouraging reminder...
Good Old Days. The 1,500,000 who obeyed the back-Frondizi order were the remnants of the massive Peronista labor movement. Perón built the movement by pampering the workers with inflationary wage boosts, and was overthrown before they reaped the economic ruin he had sown. Now pinched by Aramburu's austere battle to rebuild the damaged economy, the workers fondly recall the good old days, never dream of blaming Perón for the mess he left behind...
...Things . . . Balbin and Frondizi ran against Perón in 1951 as Radical candidates for President and Vice President, were overwhelmed by the Peronista machine. Tenaciously. Frondizi set himself to work for another chance. His voice blasted at Perón on dark streets to little knots of approving Radicals. When the dictator eased up just before his fall in 1955. he chose Frondizi to speak for the opposition. Said Frondizi: the Radicals stand for the right "to think, to profess religion, to meet, to publish ideas...