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...small crowd gathered in the rain last week in front of Buenos Aires Casa Rosada (Pink House), heard President Ramirez announce that Argentina had broken diplomatic relations with Germany and Japan. The last and most reluctant nation of Latin America had put a tentative foot in the United Nations camp...
...Neighbors. Little, liberal, democratic Uruguay (pop. 2,000,000) has nervously watched the development of aggressive, Fascist-like nationalism in neighboring Argentina. The group of Army jingoes called "The Colonels," led by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron and nominally headed by President-General Pedro Ramirez, has defied the U.S., the United Nations, its Latin neighbors. Almost certainly "The Colonels" instigated the revolt of Gualberto Villarroel in Bolivia (TIME, Jan. 3., et seq.}. Probably the Argentine junta has plotted similar moves in other countries, will plot again...
Cracks in the Clique. Argentina, unlike Bolivia, is neither weak nor pathetic. But her Government is not invulnerable; it has several cracks. Its President, General Pedro Ramirez, pushed into the background by the "Colonels' Clique" headed by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron, does not enjoy obscurity. Within the Clique itself, Peron has serious rivals, who resent his growing power. Most dangerous seems to be Colonel Enrique Gonzalez, Cabinet-ranking Secretary to the Presidency...
Last week, in Buenos Aires' city hall, handsome, hard Colonel Juan Domingo Péron, Argentine Under Secretary of War, was sworn in as head of the new Secretariat of Labor and Welfare. Around him were the Army officers who, with him, control Argentina and President-General Pedro Ramirez...
Their instrument is the GOU (Government of Order and Unity), otherwise known as "the Colonels' Clique" which put President Ramirez in office last summer. By last week, Colonel Péron and his dominant GOU had taken on many of the aspects, used some of the tricks of German Naziism. One of the first objectives: complete control of Argentine labor. Colonel Péron had already smashed the strongest union (Confederación General de Trabajo, 250,000 members), was enticing others with promises to "get your rights without outside agitators...