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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...
...first two days in Buenos Aires, Miller spent 12½ hours chewing the diplomatic fat with Peron. In fluent Spanish he told the President plainly that as long as his regime continued to whittle away civil liberties and chop down the independent press, close relations between the U.S. and Argentina would be difficult. Peron switched the subject to Communism and repeated his old phrase that Argentina would come to the aid of the U.S. in any war with Russia. "But Mr. President," replied Miller, "our problem right now is to prevent...
...projects. One was to eliminate or reduce a double tax system under which a company's profits are taxed both by Argentina and by the U.S.; another was a new treaty of commerce and friendship that would reassure U.S. businessmen operating in Argentina against the fear of expropriation. Peron, never much at home in economics, called in his experts. They went over ways of increasing Argentine exports to the U.S., and agreed to shift the headquarters of the mixed U.S.Argentine trade commission from Washington to Buenos Aires. Although the Argentine press denied that a U.S. loan had been discussed...
Besides holding such sessions with Peron and his advisers, Miller faced the usual delicate task of making friends without rousing vociferous groups in the U.S. by appearing to approve all the works of the Peron regime. It was a task at which U.S. diplomats, from Cordell Hull to onetime Ambassador James Bruce, had not been conspicuously successful. Personable, lively, tactful and resourceful, Miller had obviously pondered many an hour on just how to walk this diplomatic tightrope...
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...