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President Juan Peron last week took steps calculated to transform his clumsy authoritarian government into an up-to-date dictatorship. With laws rammed through the closing session of Congress (43 were passed in five hours), the President did away with 1) free political discussion of himself, his wife or his regime, and 2) any future election threat to his rule...
Every morning, when Education Minister Oscar Ivanissevich comes to work, he goes through a little ceremony. First he bows deeply before the portraits of President Peron and la Señora. Then, flinging open the French windows, he fills his lungs with 100% Argentine air. Finally he shouts ecstatically: "Good morning, my Fatherland...
...velvet-curtained room off the Capitolio's Senate chamber, three Peronista Senators were quietly but efficiently remaking the Argentine judiciary. Their power stemmed from a previously unnoticed paragraph in the new Peron constitution (TIME, March 29) which provided that all federal justices be confirmed by the Senate. The clause, as interpreted by the Senate, was retroactive; it covered all sitting judges as well as new appointees...
...Paris, Communist Yves Peron denounced the pact's advocates as "men who collaborated with the Nazis and who are now ready to collaborate with the Americans on the same basis." Angry anti-Communist deputies chased him to the lobby; a Gaullist slapped him across both cheeks, drawing blood with a signet ring. Reinforcements rushed up and in no time a yelling, swaying free-for-all was on. Perspiring ushers in wing collars and tail coats barely managed to restore order...
...Spanish were furious, all the more so because, when Evita Peron visited Madrid two years ago, Father Benitez was a much sought-out member of her party. Madrid's press fairly sizzled. Ya wrote: "It makes one wonder whether the priest's mother had a weakness for a Frenchman." Editorialized Bilbao's El Correo Espanol: "A bilious and ill-adapted clergyman...