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Over & over, the Buenos Aires radio blared praise of Peron and La Senora. Scarcely half an hour went by without a newscaster using the phrase: "The wife of the President of the Republic, Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron." Argentines were inured to such laminated logrolling, but their Uruguayan neighbors across the River Plate had to hear it too, and they were not amused...
Bataillon notes one strong show of anti-American spirit in Peru, where a "very important" party--the Apristes--is advocating National Socialism and antiracism. Peron in Argentina is "just a demagogue" and the nations Bataillon visited are not at all fearful of his intentions...
...example, when Argentina's President Juan Peron complained to Uruguayan Ambassador Roberto E. MacEachen last month that Montevideo radio stations were reporting the alleged plot against him in an unfriendly manner, MacEachen replied: "But in Uruguay we have a free radio...
Scarce newsprint, now imported and sold only by the government, has been Peron's strongest leverage on the press, but publishers have also been harassed by special labor rules. Last fortnight, for example, Congress boosted wages of all newspaper employees...
Good Buying. Prosperous (circ. 300,000) Noticias, an afternoon sheet, was a logical buy for Eva's holding company, Editorial Democracia, which already owned the dailies Democracia and Laborista. Evita's pet, and purest example of the Peron press, is Democracia, which has built up to a 200,000 circulation and rolls gaily along; losing about 10 million pesos ($2,091,000) a year. Democracia has a staff photographer who specializes in pictures of Evita herself; a dozen or so may turn up in a single edition. For the most part Evita does her editing by telephone. When...