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...explode just as the foreign ministers of all 21 Latin American countries gathered in Washington in conference. If it did not convince them that there might be more than one atomic power in the hemisphere, it at least distracted them from the subject of the forced closing of La Prensa by Dictator Perón. As the delegates settled down this week to hammer out a hemisphere defense policy against Communist aggression, they kept one ear cocked for more offstage noises from Juan...
...debate was stormy and punctuated by the bronze alarm bells ringing for order. The Peronista-packed Chamber of Deputies passed and sent on to the rubber-stamp Senate-which approved it within 100 minutes-a resolution to appoint "a joint congressional committee to intervene and investigate . . . La Prensa, and the firms commercially linked to it, with the purpose of determining a definite program to be adopted ..." Until the Peronista-packed committee made its recommendation, it would in effect control the newspaper, lock, stock and presses...
When the inter-American conference convenes in Washington today, there will be two items of "purely domestic" Argentine business that will not find their way on to the agenda. One is the suppression of the newspaper La Prensa by Peron's government, which became official last week; the other is the Argentine discovery of nuclear fusion, the process behind the hydrogen bomb...
...Prensa's death had been expected ever since the paper fell into a government-encouraged coma two months ago. Dictators are notoriously thin-skinned and Prcon and his wife Evita could not endure the barbs of La Prensa indefinitely. The only question was whether they would take the step of complete suppression, knowing that an unfavorable response in other countries was inevitable...
...playing from strength, why did he find it necessary to discover nuclear fusion at this time? It could be simply an attempt to demonstrate his slogan-Peron Gets Things Done. It could be a move to increase his international prestige, or to draw some attention away from the La Prensa incident. But in any event, assuming that Peron's scientists have not really discovered what makes the sun burn, the atom announcement brings the Argentine satrap a little bit closer to the scientific imperialism of the Nazis and Communists...