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...Quebec City, Premier Maurice Duplessis got a gift from an admirer: the Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin from Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron...
...fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
When big, friendly Businessman James Bruce checked in last year as U.S. ambassador at Buenos Aires, he had high hopes that the U.S. could do business with Argentina. He learned a little Spanish, hit it off so well with President Juan Peron that the two were soon back-slapping each other...
...personal friendliness could not soften the hard reality that Argentina was running out of dollars and smack into a first-rate financial crisis. Moreover, the Peron plan of exacting heavy tribute from hungry Europe for Argentine produce was beginning to backfire...
...turkey for use in Germany suggested a far from united economic front against Argentina. What went on? EGA, which holds the strings of the biggest purse, gave Ambassador Bruce the score. The EGA would not spend a dime of the U.S. taxpayer's money in Argentina until the Peron government gave some hard & fast promises to: 1) sell to the U.S. at world prices; 2 ) sell to Marshall Plan countries at world prices; 3) resume payments on U.S. investments in Argentina. Because Europe and the U.S. expect bumper crops this year, EGA can get along without Argentine produce...