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...welcomed the ready cash to expand her industries-lumber, power, coal-welcomed still more a chance to buy cheaply from Argentina's ample supply of meat and other foodstuffs for her undernourished masses. Argentina badly needs Chile's coal, iron and copper to carry out Peron's ambitious five-year plan...
...guns-for-butter Five-Year Plan (TIME, Oct. 14), Juan Peron last week picked a man tabbed by the U.S. Blue Book as a wartime A is agent. His choice: Barcelona-born José Figuerola, who got his start by blueprinting Government-bossed trade unions for Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera in the '20s. In Argentina, where he took out citizenship papers in 1930, chubby Jose Figuerola kept up the good work as Juan Perón's Man Friday and expert on labor matters. Argentines now saw -his fine Iberian hand in almost every paragraph...
...surprised to learn that their old chief disliked U.S.-style democracy. Brother Viriato had long ago tersely explained the family position: "Democracy was born, matured, ripened and died. The stench from its body pollutes the air." But the socialist talk was new. Perhaps it was a page from Peron's book, a scheme for vote-getting only...
...shifted to South America, where Communists are working and organizing like beavers (see LATIN AMERICA) . In Buenos Aires, Messersmith can only watch-from the splendor of the colonnaded U.S. Embassy. He feels it is his principal job to get along with Perón, while seeking to contain the Peron influence in Argentina and preventing its spread to the rest of South America...
...Peron's purposes were plain: to win the new regime to his treaty for customs and passport union, perhaps then to put Bolivia in almost the same relation to Argentina as Austria was to Hitler's Germany. Last week he was reported demanding tin and rubber from Bolivia to implement his new five-year plan (TIME...