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...blow fell after more than 1,200 employees of La Prensa met and vowed that their newspaper, closed down for more than a month by a boycott of the government-dominated news vendors' union, would publish again on the next...
...Juan Peron showed the world that the totalitarianism in Argentina, however popular with his voters, can take the same form as totalitarianism anywhere, from Mussolini's Italy to Stalin's Russia. With gangster violence and drumhead judgment, his government struck another blow at a great newspaper, La Prensa, that dared to print news unfavorable to his regime. His police hounded and arrested two U.S. correspondents. If there had been any hope of a free press in Argentina, it lay shattered by the work of a night...
...Buenos Aires, La Prensa is still closed down, victim of a government-encouraged strike. Dictator Peron, facing an "election" year, has counted La Prensa's enforced silence as his first step to a complete victory...
...U.S.Argentine relations have sagged lately, and that they are not likely to be improved by turgid Perón speeches proclaiming that not only Communism but capitalism must go. The general might also be told that the U.S. public and press do not cotton to the gagging of La Prensa or the bilious, Kremlin-style attacks on U.S. business by Evita Perón's newspaper, Democracia...
Best opinion in Buenos Aires is that the newspaper, which earned an estimated $1,000,000 a year before the war, is still financially strong. Materially as well as spiritually, embattled La Prensa is well equipped to fight a long siege...