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Resignations & Refusals. Meanwhile, the army collected a fresh token of prestige as the War Minister, General José Humberto Sosa Molina, was named to the new post of Defense Minister, in charge of air, naval and ground forces. Army pressure unquestionably had been a decisive factor in forcing onetime Economic Czar Miguel Miranda out of office and probably could do the same thing to Perón, if the army chose to. At week's end, Buenos Aires sources reported that the President had already suggested that he resign, only to be told to stay where...
...that had some substance. According to it, the army, which in the long run calls the tune in Argentina, had handed Perón a list of demands. Among them: 1) make Evita drop all political activity; 2) form a new cabinet retaining only War Minister Humberto Sosa Molina, Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia and Interior Minister Angel C. Borlenghi; 3) forget the foreign policy hokum of a "third position"-between the capitalist U.S. and Communist Russia-and patch up relations with the U.S. and Britain; 4) take immediate steps to stop inflation...
...President and la Señora had gone to their country place at nearby San Vicente, but the President got little rest. Official callers, high among them War Minister Sosa Molina, kept him so busy that he failed to make his scheduled address of welcome to the Inter-American Travel Congress, and sent no regrets for his absence. Without newspapers to give the reason for this strange behavior, rumor-fed Argentines began to talk ominously of political change...
Between protocol and gastronomy, Sosa Molina got down to the business which brought him to the U.S.: military materiel for Argentina. His list included almost everything in the weapons catalogue, with a total value of about half a billion dollars. Army officials explained to him that U.S. munitions factories, unlike those in Argentina, are free to make private contracts with foreign customers (although the U.S. Government has to grant export licenses), that if Argentina had the money, it could buy arms wherever it could find them. The Army itself could do nothing for him until Congress passes the long pigeonholed...
With his country eyeing the bare bottom of its dollar barrel, Sosa Molina was in no position to order U.S.-made arms. But he would not go home emptyhanded. With the Army Department's O.K., he would probably get permission to manufacture U.S.-model weapons in Argentina...