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Argentina. President Juan Peron has "made it clear he wished for good relations with the United States," said Cabot. "In today's world. Argentine and United States interests coincide far more than they clash . . . [Peron has] told us that Argentine friendship has no price...
...tried friendship with Peron before-only to have him attack U.S. policy or outrage U.S. opinion by wrecking the great newspaper La Prensa. Peron has even played footie. off & on. with one faction or another of Argentina's Communists. But this week, in a filmed interview for U.S. television, he said: "It would be a most dangerous problem for any of our countries if a government in Latin America . . became Communistic." In that mood, Peron clearly passes the test...
...body, which has lain in a "temporary" resting place these past 15 years, will be borne with ceremonial pomp to a new mausoleum on Ankara's highest hill. The mausoleum, reached by 33 marble steps 132 feet wide, will probably be the biggest of its kind, until Evita Peron's or the proposed Soviet pantheon tops it. For three days, Turkey's 21 million citizens will do him honor...
...example, he gave the case of several Prensa editors who had refused to work for the paper after its seizure. Some, Paz said, had been taken from their homes without explanation, left in prison, and then released without having charges preferred. "With a free press to publicize such incidents, Peron could never get away with them. Because of the present censorship, though, no one ever finds out." But, despite the dangers of advocating their former policies of freedom, he felt that the majority of the paper's 1800 employees have remained loyal...
...aired some gloomy opinions on conditions in Argentina. Comparing them with those of Orwell's 1984, he commented, "Argentina lacks the television mechanism, but waiters in the restaurants and even servants in the home are spying constantly. In place of "Big Brother", posters reading 'Peron Comple' (Peron accomplishes) line the streets. Opposition parties cannot meet, and all newspapers are controlled by the government." As for Peron's sudden wooing of the US, Paz warned that it was merely a corallary to economic need. He felt that the only way that America could help restore freedom to Argentina would...