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...shooting, there were indications that the rival United Press might be in more immediate danger of being squeezed out of Argentina. U.P. had long supplied an elaborate overseas news report (under a fat $8,000-a-week contract) to Perón's mortal foe, La Prensa. The very charge on which Perón expropriated La Prensa was that it relied on U.P.'s service and was therefore a foreign-bossed enterprise. In a recent chat with Reuters' Buenos Aires chief, Perón reportedly accused the U.S. agencies of "spying" and sending out false reports...
That was a plain hint of an economic freeze-out that would hit U.P. hardest. Even without La Prensa, the service still sells news to more than 30 newspapers and radio stations in Argentina...
Buenos Aires' great independent newspaper La Prensa was dead last week, its life snuffed out by Juan Perón. By act of the rubber-stamp Argentine Congress, the world-famed paper had been expropriated and, in Perón's cynical words, "handed over to the workers for whatever use they think best." La Prensa will soon appear as the mouthpiece of the Perón-dominated General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T...
...that such a thing could happen in his country, said La Nation. "Nevertheless, we find ourselves confronted with a fait accompli. A great voice has been silenced. But its echo will continue vibrating in the hearts of all those who love liberty." Though the authorities might take over La Prensa's assets, they could never acquire "its intellectual prestige, its public confidence . . . We must believe that the independent truth and devotion to the national interest which always distinguished La Prensa of yesterday will return again to be respected and blessed in La Prensa of tomorrow...
...commission solemnly reported to the Argentine Congress that the U.P., along with the Associated Press, "controls all information and nearly all thoughts spread throughout the world. What La Prensa gives its readers, with the exception of a few editorials, is not the thoughts of La Prensa but the thoughts of the United Press. The thought-out news [articles] manufactured by the United Press ... are the thoughts of bankers, industries and powerful commercial interests. The U.S. people are also under this yoke, and their leaders are threatened by its enmity. That is why Truman has said he has four or five...