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...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...
...political matters. Commenting on the basis of freedom, he said, "A free press is the backbone of any democracy, because if a man is deprived of his constitutional rights in any way, his ultimate appeal is to the newspaper." As an 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...
...many in the United States, Argentine dictator Peron's sudden outburst of forgiveness for political exiles was encouraging. But Alberto Gainza Paz, former editor-publisher of La Prensa, sees little that points toward a free Argentina. Believing the latest policy shift to be only a temporary phase, Paz is resigned to continue his voluntary exile until freedom returns to his country...
...years ago, when the government seized his newspaper, and with it, Argentina's last token of democracy, Paz fled just ahead of a warrent for his arrest. This ended an eighty-one year crusade in which the Paz family had dedicated La Prensa to fighting the totalitarianism that finally killed...
...illustrate, he told of his own escape from Argentina. Shortly after La Prensa shut down, he started for Uruguay to visit his mother. At the dock, a police told him that he could not leave the country, and pulled him off the pier. "He said that he was sorry, but that those were his orders, and then whispered, 'There are a thousand ways to get across the border. Try somewhere else.'" Minutes later, Paz got away from his police escort and two men he had never seen before helped him into a sailboat bound for Uruguay and freedom...