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...commercial dailies also felt the threat of a swat. For four months, newsprint imports had been banned. Now the Government was letting paper in if buyers surrendered part of it for resale to the noisy pro-Perón press. Staunchly independent La Prensa, desperate for newsprint, was asked to give up half its incoming shipments; the more tractable El Mundo chain (one newspaper, six magazines, a radio station) could keep 70%. The warning to the press was clear: angle your stories right to stay in business...
...police state. Socialists, even Communists, could stage street-corner meetings and shout bitterly against the Government, if they dared the stones of exuberant Perónistas. But the press throttle was ominous, even though Perónistas, who blandly assert that the press is free, could point to La Prensa's reprinting excerpts from last week's warning by the New York Times: "This is the classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle the voice of a free press and to destroy the sources...
...time only to say: "Shirtless companions" when the crowd shouted: "The coat, the coat!" Perón laughed, took it off and launched into a speech in his old rabble-rousing manner. He praised his regime, gently chided the workers for having stoned the building of oppositionist La Prensa on their way to the Plaza. Then, just before Government functionaries passed around cookies and candies as gifts from Evita, Perón declared the following day a holiday...
...wire from Buenos Aires, where Peronistas are out to get rid of Argentina's two biggest dailies by annoying them to death (TIME, March 31). The sum of A.P.'s dispatch was that the Government had sued to collect multimillion-dollar duties on newsprint that oppositionist La Prensa and La Nación had imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere to lay Juan...
After brief service in World War I, Gruening became publisher of New York City's Spanish language daily, La Prensa, developed a deep interest in Latin America. As managing editor of the liberal Nation, he clamored for recognition of Mexico's revolutionary Obregon government, railed against dollar diplomacy, U.S. intervention in Latin American affairs, later wrote Mexico and Its Heritage...