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...Argentina, the press made much out of reporting that the enthusiastic reception at seaside Mar del Plata had moved the President of the U.S. to a public display of warm and very human tears. In Brazil, acting Foreign Minister Fernando Ramos de Alencar reflected that "to us who shook hands with him, it was like being visited by Santa Claus." In Chile, lanky, Lincolnesque President Jorge Alessandri toasted Eisenhower: "You have conquered our hearts." In Uruguay, Eduardo Victor Haedo, a federal councilman who will rotate into the council presidency next year, said: "Eisenhower's personal history and the policy...
...same next day at Mar del Plata (a detour carefully arranged to get Ike out of tense Buenos Aires into a more easily policed area). Along the seven-mile route from the airport into the resort town, nearly a million cheering, suntanned vacationers, many wearing bathing suits, made a happy uproar and brought a mile-wide grin to Ike's face...
...excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for expelling a pair of prelates from 90% Catholic Argentina. During the uprising Peronistas burned nine Catholic churches. Most churchmen still denounce Peron, but last week Monsignor Antonio Jose Plaza, 49-year-old archbishop of the industrial city of La Plata, was trying to lure the 2,000,000 Peronistas still left into a proclerical political party...
...Bamboo Curtain by Latin Americans. Last year 37 delegations, most of them going through Russia first, got the VIP tour; so far this year, more than 40 have entered China. By and large, they have found the going good-and said so. Colombia's Congressman Horacio Rodriguez Plata climaxed a Peking banquet by praising China's "defense of peace." Rasped Chile's former Minister of the Interior Guillermo del Pedregal to Peking University students: "U.S. imperialism is our common archenemy...
...Puerto Plata front, the government countered rebel claims of a successful landing with a communiqué full of gore. The "liberators" who survived an air and naval bombardment, it said, "waded ashore apparently hoping still to march on Ciudad Trujillo with the aid of peasants. It did not work that way. Machete-swinging farmers beat government troops to the beach. The invasion ended in a murderous flailing of razor-sharp machetes on the reddened sands. Army patrols found only dismembered bodies...