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...great newspaper is about to be destroyed," said Editor Robin Cruikshank of London's News Chronicle in a special broadcast to some 8,000,000 Britons. "That concerns all of us who love freedom. The Argentine is a long way off. We may never have seen La Prensa, but the freedom of all free men everywhere is hurt by such an attack . . . When liberty of the press is destroyed no other freedom is safe...
...Louisville Courier-Journal asked, what could really be done by the free nations about Perón and La Prensa? In London, where meat-hungry Britons have tightened their belts while they dickered over the price of Argentine meat, Humorist A. P. Herbert wrote a doughty answer in the Sunday Graphic...
...Till Prensa speaks, let us be dumb...
External Pressures. In the U.S., many editors clamored for quick action. The Scripps-Howard papers fumed at the United Nations Economic and Social Council, in session in Chile, for not taking up the question of La Prensa. (The New York World-Telegram & Sun told the pussyfooting council to "get lost.") The Scripps-Howard Washington News offered its columns to La Prensa's editors or to any South American journalist who wanted to state La Prensa's case-a vantage point for argument during the current conference of Foreign Ministers of the American republics (see HEMISPHERE) in Washington. Syndicated...
Mingled with the anger of editors was the strong faith that La Prensa eventually would triumph over Perón, just as Italy's Corriere della Sera had outlived Mussolini. "La Prensa apparently has lost a battle," wrote the Portland Oregon Journal, "but the war for truth won't be won by Perón, that is certain." Said the Manchester Guardian's Acting Editor J. R. L. Anderson: "Señor Perón and his friends can stop [La Prensa's] presses for a time, but when they have been dismissed to an ugly...