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Swinging round to Rio for next week's conference of U.S. ambassadors in South America, Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller Jr. dropped in for a visit with Juan Peron. It was no mere card-dropping call. Four years after Peron's election, getting along with the Argentine President was still the U.S.'s touchiest hemispheric problem, and Miller had come armed with a bulging briefcase. With Peron facing serious economic troubles at home and abroad, Miller thought that Argentina's President might welcome the chance to talk business...
...President did say "always." But then, that was more than three years ago. For the past two months Peron has authorized, if he has not actively directed, the most widespread and relentless attack on press freedom that modern Argentina has ever seen. In that time his favorite congressional hatchet man, José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher, has closed 58 newspapers and magazines outright. By taking control of the country's chief newsprint stocks he has gained the power of life or death over virtually all the rest of the press...
That regime is nearly on the rocks. Franco is so broke that he cannot even wangle food from his friend Peron in Argentina, and he desperately wants U.S. economic help. He has so far stayed in power largely by keeping one of the biggest armies in Europe well-fed and happy; now this army is getting hungry and may start shopping around for a government which would be more apt to attract U.S. aid. Acheson says he is afraid a continued U.S. cold shoulder might bring Spain a "costly civil war." A U.S. Ambassador and some aid will make sure...
Nothing daunted, the Senators went into secret session and confirmed the original list, adding Brigadier General Peron's name at its head. That left the President in a pretty pickle. How could he be so immodest as to make himself a major general? How, on the other hand, could he be so selfish as to return the list unapproved, thus holding up the promotions of 60 worthy officers? At week's end he found a neat solution: President Peron scratched out General Peron's name, then signed...
...other matters involving the presidential dignity, Peron moved even more decisively. For printing summaries of a "disrespectful" speech by ex-Deputy Atilio...