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...wiliest moves was his beguilement of the working press. Argentina's newspapers (La Prensa, La Natión, La Razón), traditionally free, frank and influential, smarted under the strict censorship begun by the Castillo regime. Instead of lifting the restrictions, which might have been dangerous for the regime, Perón forced the publishers to raise their employes' wages...
Anti-Nazi La Prensa, noting that Secretary Hull had made his charge in a press interview, deplored "diplomatic debate . . . outside normal procedure," observed that it exposed a statesman to "the danger of saying more than he would say in direct contacts...
Last week crowds of demonstrators marched in the streets of Buenos Aires, chanting "Argentina, si! Yanquis, no!" They paraded before the U.S. Embassy, threw rocks at the English Pharmacy, at Charley's American Bar. They also rocked the newly freed La Prensa and other anti-Axis papers...
Newspaper Renaissance. Pro-democratic Argentine newspapers had been lock-jawed Charley McCarthys. Now, the Government announced, they were free to publish what they pleased. La Prensa, La Nation and other anti-Axis papers promptly printed the full text of Secretary Hull's angry statement, or made thorough summaries of it. They followed this up by -publishing columns of sharp editorial comment from London, Washington, New York and various Latin American capitals...
Declared the great La Prensa in its lead editorial: "The gravest and most regrettable error" of anti-U.S. President Ramon Castillo was his muzzling of the press in December, 1941. It put him out of touch with Argentine public opinion, led to the unfortunate consequences from which the nation still suffered. Now, hoped La Prensa, the misunderstandings which conspired against hemisphere solidarity would disappear as the Argentine press recovered its right to express its opinions...