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Your press roundup of editorial comments on the malodorous suppression of La Prensa [April 2] is the most heartening news in American journalism today. It is good, indeed, to find our otherwise politically diverse press united in the cause of free press...
Dictator Juan Peron, always at pains to keep his dirty work legal, executed a maneuver last week that gave the sanction of the law to the strangling of La Prensa. By terms of the law, the great independent newspaper was expropriated by the government...
...frame up a case, a Peronista-packed Parliamentary Commission had dug through La Prensa's files for a month in search of irregularities. Pickings were evidently slim. The worst crime the commission could find to charge against the newspaper was that it used the United Press news service, and paid the U.P. $8,000 a week; that proved that La Prensa was a foreign-bossed enterprise...
Almost casually, Washington's National Press Club announced last week that it was going to fly its flag at half-staff in mourning for the Perón-suppressed La Prensa. The Washington Post urged newspapers to do so too. On mourning day, three days later, newspapers, press clubs and radio stations all through the Western Hemisphere lowered their flags. Buenos Aires' doughty La Natión, Argentina's last important independent daily, noted the demonstration in a brief, straightforward account. But the Peronista La Epoca set the note for the rest of Argentina's press...
Recently during the La Prensa-Perón controversy this letter reported something of our attitude here at TIME toward the difficult problem of how to handle the news from the Argentine-Perón being what he is and the problems of our State Department being what they...