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Thus ended, at least for the moment, the bumpy career of one of the few Argentine priests who had dared to criticize the Peron regime. Though the chancery in Buenos Aires gave no explanation, it was plain enough that the priest's criticisms had become embarrassing to the Cardinal Primate...
...Flores Department. When Senora de Batlle Berres came into one of the classes, the teacher, anxious to show off her pupils, called on an eight-year-old for the name of the wife of the President of the Republic. Blurted the radio-prepped moppet: "Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron...
...head of the U.N. Security Council, Juan Atilio Bramuglia had put the name of Argentina high on the list of big-time diplomacy. Few Argentines knew that. President Juan Domingo Peron had told Argentina's controlled press and radio to ignore Bramuglia. The cold-shoulder treatment extended even to Bramuglia's visit to Washington, where last week he talked with President Harry Truman and top Government officials...
...poor Italian immigrants, Bramuglia had come up the hard way. Somehow he got himself through school, and eventually earned a law degree, but as a lawyer he scarcely made expenses. Until he met Colonel Peron in 1943, he worked at a civil-service job that paid 300 pesos ($90) a month. He picked up another 900 pesos as lawyer for the railway workers' unions. Colonel Peron, as Secretary of Labor & Social Welfare, hired Bramuglia as an adviser. Soon he was deep in poli tics. In 1945, he landed in the fat post of Governor of Buenos Aires. The next...
Peronistas and opposition alike respected Bramuglia's integrity, his open dealing. Foreign diplomats found him easy to see and thoroughly a man of his word. Peron liked to boast that Bramuglia was exhibit A in the story of how a poor man could make the grade under his regime...