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...thing to shut down and seize a great daily, Argentina's Juan Peron has found, but quite another thing to publish it. Since last May Day, when he gave Buenos Aires' La Prensa to "the workers," the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) has struggled to get another edition of the daily on the stands. Twice C.G.T. has set publication dates, but no papers have come out, in part because the government let printing machinery become clogged with rust and dust...
This week the Peronistas finally published their new La Prensa. It looked, at first glance, like the old, used the same type and makeup, ran the same columns of social news, claimed the same circulation. Gone were the exhaustive reports from abroad which had helped make La Prensa one of the world's great newspapers, and the editorials which had quietly spoken up against Juan Peron...
...president of the Argentine newspaper La Prensa, Alberto Paz, said after his visit to America that it was not the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls that was the most remarkable thing he saw, but the Princeton honor system, and he might well think...
Buenos Aires' great independent newspaper La Prensa, killed by President Perón last spring, is to begin a new existence this month as the mouthpiece of Perón's General Confederation of Labor. The present editor of Evita Perón's demagogic, anti-U.S. Democracia is slated to be editor. He plans to get out his first edition Oct. 18, the morning after the Perónistas' Loyalty Day. Oct. 18 will also be the Sand anniversary of La Prensa's founding...
...Manhattan last week came one of the Hemisphere's foremost political refugees, Alberto Gainza Paz, editor and publisher of Buenos Aires' La Prensa before it was throttled by Juan Perón. Next month Manhattan's Freedom House will honor him with a bronze plaque, "in grateful recognition of devotion to a free press and inter-American friendship." U.S. newsmen found Gainza Paz neither bitter nor bowed. "The real democratic Argentina," he said, "will survive." And La Prensa, he added, will also survive: "You can expropriate the machinery of a newspaper but not the spirit. Freedom always...