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...Latin Americans have a great admiration and respect for your Eleanor Roosevelt, although she is constantly attacked by a certain part of the U.S. press . . . I beg you to have more respect for Eva Peron, who is dead [TIME, Aug. 4] and who was a great figure whether you yanquis like...
...Argentine relations, bad for years, are getting worse. Recently Juan Perón sent a directive to his top ministers saying that a state of "cold war" exists between the two countries. Last week Peron's propaganda hucksters were obediently spreading a vitriolic hate-the-yanquis campaign. Perón himself, since admitting last winter that Argentina is in an economic mess, has loudly blamed it all on "Wall Street." Now he seems to be obsessed with the belief that the U.S. is "spying" on his government...
...Congress building, Peron helped his faltering wife into the vice president's chair, then quickly, one hand on the Bible, swore to defend the constitution. Outside, thousands of members of the Peronista Women's Party chanted: "Viva Evita, the vice president!" But Evita slipped away to return to the presidential estate in suburban Olivos. Peron swore in his new cabinet, reviewed a parade of cavalry and foot soldiers (mechanized forces were left in barracks to save gasoline), waved briefly from his balcony to 100,000 cheering descamisados, and hurried to Olivos to be at his wife...
...Empty Larder. As Peron began his second term in office, Argentina was faced with a mounting economic crisis. As a result of drought and government mismanagement, prices are shooting up at the rate of 3% a month. Peron also seems to be heading for trouble with the church. Last month, when the church protested that a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atomica was immoral (TIME, June 2), the government not only refused to ban the film but sent police to make sure that it was shown. Last week, in a new move almost certain to provoke a showdown, some...
There is no way to gauge how much popular support Peron has lost from any of these setbacks. Presumably, he could not match his 70% majority of last November in anything like a free election today. But Peron still runs a tightly controlled police state backed up by a controlled press. His 5,000,000-man General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) is now organized on the lines of a civilian militia, ready to fight any anti-Peron uprising. Since 1946, Peron has increased his police fivefold; Buenos Aires alone now has more than 35,000 cops. Since last September...