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Also removed from public view were some live Peronistas. Major General Franklin Lucero. the Army Minister who shored up Juan Peron after last June's unsuccessful revolution, and Major General Jose Humberto Sosa Molina, Peron's Defense Minister, were jailed. So was Hugo de Pietro, last Peronista boss of the General Confederation of Labor...
Argentine marines swooped into the Buenos Aires headquarters of the diehard Peronista labor confederation, in a double-locked room discovered a white-shrouded body laid out on a long table flanked by evergreens. The corpse: none other than Eva Peron, perfectly preserved though three years dead of cancer, whose whereabouts was till now a mystery to Argentina's victorious revolutionaries. With ex-Dictator Juan Peron (the "immortal widower") now in exile, Eva's remains will probably be turned over to her mother for burial at last...
...Argentine government retired Perón from the army along with 43 Peronista officers, and announced that a court of honor would try him in absentia "to analyze and judge [his] conduct"-presumably a reference to his discreditable romance with a teen-age girl (TIME, Oct. 10) and to his enrichment in office...
Lonardi brought back more than freedom; he brought back justice. In 1946 and 1947, Perón's Congress impeached the entire five-man Supreme Court on the novel ground that its earlier decisions constituted "misdemeanors." The judges were thereupon ousted and replaced by Peronista lackeys. The new President threw out the Peronistas and replaced them with law professors and provincial judges known for their brains and probity. And he started the General Confederation of Labor on the way to pick new leaders for itself...
...career soldier, Lonardi naturally leaned heavily on old and trusted friends for his administrative appointments. He made a clean sweep of scores of Peronista governors and mayors; so many senior military men were called on for temporary service in these jobs that Lonardi found himself short of qualified division and regimental commanders. His cabinet, however, was mainly civilian, and Argentines seemed to think it serious and competent...