Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest news event in Latin America last year made jittery reading for the hemisphere's military strongmen. The crash of Argentina's Juan Peron showed with unnerving clarity how swiftly the most deeply entrenched tyrant can be destroyed by aroused public opinion and disenchanted military leaders. By last week strongman regimes in four other nations were showing signs of strain...
...still. He released for quotation a passage from his unpublished book, Might Is the Right of Beasts, saying that his late wife Eva "performed more Christian works in one day than all the priests of my country in their entire lives." As for Argentina's new military rulers, Peron scorned them as "men incapable of governing because their custom is to command . . . They end in chaos and . . . fall later, discredited and hated...
...Peron's direction of the plotters was understandably hard for the government to prove, but some evidence existed. In Uruguay a fortnight ago, his private secretary, Luis Radeglia, who had flown in from Panama, was detained and found to have tape recordings of Peron speeches, presumably for broadcasts to the homeland. In Buenos Aires Peronistas were peddling phonograph records labeled as tangos but really pep talks by Peron...
...regime's headaches have economic as well as political roots. In recent weeks Aramburu has given Argentina an unpalatable dose of austerity to try to clear up the economic mess inherited from Peron. The country's best-known economist, U.N. Official Raul Prebisch, reported that government interference under Peron had crippled economic development and kept the country's average per capita income almost stationary for ten years. He recommended stripping off many controls, e.g., an artificially high peso exchange rate, and taking anti-inflationary fiscal measures. A healthy if painful readjustment is taking place...
...United Lutheran Church in Amer ica, broadcast his list of the ten top religious news stories of 1955: 1) the illness, recovery and vision of Pope Pius XII, 2) Christian missionaries released by Red China, 3) Evangelist Billy Graham's sweep of Western Europe, 4) Dictator Peron's "failure to choke Argentine Roman Catholics," 5) Princess Margaret's stand for the "indissolubility" of Christian marriage, 6) Lutheran heresy trials, 7) collapse of negotiations for the proposed merger between northern and southern Presbyterians, 8) indecision in some church leadership following the Supreme Court ruling on racial segregation...