Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ivan refused. An editorial in Eva Peron's own evening Noticias Gráficas announced the inevitable decision: "The authorities who control education have taken no step whatsoever [to counter] the terrific insult . . . Those whose task it is to look after the national culture and pUrity of national virtues have failed...
Before the new understanding, the U.S. had steadfastly refrained from offering help to the tottering Argentine economy, in the pious hope that the need for assistance might persuade Peron to restore full civil liberties and stop acting like a cut-rate dictator. For better or worse, the new U.S. policy would be to help Argentina get up on her feet first, and worry about internal reforms afterward...
Architect of the new policy is Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller Jr., who conferred with Peron in Buenos Aires in February (TIME, March 6). "We hope that once Argentina is on her feet, civil liberties, as we think of them, will be restored," said Miller. "Meanwhile ... we've got to do something positive . . . We're going ahead with...
Before that happened, the government granted a reprieve: a piddling 120 tons, enough for two or three days. This week, another skimpy allotment would probably be doled out. Perhaps the Peron regime felt that, in killing off an institution that the outside world had learned to honor, slow starvation might seem more genteel than outright strangulation...
Change the Subject. After a personally conducted tour of Senora Peron's charitable enterprises, Diplomat Miller said: "No citizen of the Americas can fail to hope for the success of any program to improve the lot of the common people of the country." Reporters from the official press were not quite satisfied. An El Mundo man asked his exact opinion of Senora Peron's work. "I have been deeply impressed," said Miller. "Your visit here," continued the reporter, "reminds us of Ambassador Bruce's words that General Peron was a great leader of a great nation. What...