Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening wore on, Mr. Buckley's reception line lengthened. He would shake hands with Peron, though not Tito, and with British diplomats who had shaken with Communists--though he wouldn't feel good about it. Would he have shaken with FDR even though Buckley thought he had betrayed us into the Second World War and sold us out at Yalta? Yes, said Buckley, because there was a difference between "subjective" and "objective" treason...
Argentina's President Juan Peron sent his military aide to the Commerce Ministry on an important errand one afternoon last week. After a ten-minute, closed-door talk with the brass-braided errand boy, young (30), earnest Commerce Minister Antonio Cafiero called his top assistants together and said goodbye. A practicing Roman Catholic and a Catholic Action leader in his student days, Cafiero had just become the first minister to lose his job as a result of the "war that Perón has been waging against the Catholic Church (TiME, April 18 et ante). On another front...
...prelates: "To those who have lost their tenure, their positions, their reputations or their resources, and to those who endured imprisonment without being convicted of any crime, goes our voice of comfort and encouragement." For eight years after he became President of 93%-Catholic Argentina in 1946, Strongman Juan Peron got along well enough with the clergy. The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, publicly prayed for "most copious blessings from Heaven" on the President. But last year the opposition-hating strongman began worrying about clerical influence in organizations of workers, professionals and students, and even more about...
Last week Peron trimmed five religious feast days-Epiphany, Corpus Christi, Assumption, All Saints, Immaculate Conception-from the list of national holidays.*The following day Cardinal Copello visited Peron, and rumors flew about that the two leaders had arranged a peace. But Peron & Co. soon punctured that wishful thought. The Ministry of Education abruptly accused Catholic schools of defrauding the government of $300,000 by padding payrolls. Sneered the Peronista newspaper Democracia: "These are the would-be monopolists of morality...
...Still on the list: the Day of Loyalty to Peron (Oct. 17) and the anniversary of Eva Peron's death (July...