Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that fight the world over - which includes Peron's Argen tina - till the end of TIME...
...last U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Mr. Stanton Griffis, got along fine with Peron, whom he considered charming. Mr. Griffis admitted that "there is a lack of personal liberty in Argentina," but this concerned him little. He said that his major job was "to become loyal friends" with the Perons by building up U.S.-Argentine trade; he felt that his work at such commercial diplomacy was often fouled by TIME'S reports (none of which he called untrue) on conditions in Peronland...
Freedom Liquidated. There was no daylight for La Prensa. This had been the showdown. Peron had, in effect, liquidated his great critic. But, as visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller told Argentina's strong man last week, the brutal suppression of freedom would cost him dearly in his standing with...
Last week Juan Peron showed the world that the totalitarianism in Argentina, however popular with his voters, can take the same form as totalitarianism anywhere, from Mussolini's Italy to Stalin's Russia. With gangster violence and drumhead judgment, his government struck another blow at a great newspaper, La Prensa, that dared to print news unfavorable to his regime. His police hounded and arrested two U.S. correspondents. If there had been any hope of a free press in Argentina, it lay shattered by the work of a night...
...choices: appeal the verdict, meanwhile staying in jail, or sign a paper on his desk and receive in return a presidential pardon, which he was empowered to issue forthwith. The paper was a statement acknowledging the accusation but not their guilt. Shea and McCombe signed. Then, with Juan Peron's "pardon," they walked out into the daylight of Buenos Aires...