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...Paraguayan government, on Argentine urging, got ready to intern the ex-strongman on a ranch near orange-growing Villarrica, 90 miles from the Paraguayan-Argentine border. There Perón was to be confined to a small area and effectively silenced...
Penthouse Reporting. In Havana, Pearson stayed in a luxurious penthouse placed at his disposal by Amadeo Barletta Jr., son of a rich Batista crony. The columnist visited Strongman Batista twice and was steered around town by Batista's American Pressagent Edmund Chester. Pundit Pearson irritated Cuban readers with his naive reporting and prize factual boners, e.g., Pearson wrote that Batista "once threw out Cuba's most hated dictator," although, as every Cuban schoolchild knows, Batista had nothing to do with Dictator Gerardo Machado's ouster in 1933. Quipped El Mundo Columnist Carlos Robreno: If Batista...
...Fatherland." Peronista propaganda used to intone over and over again. But when the powder smoke cleared last week, there was Perón, holed up in a grubby foreign gunboat, and there was the Fatherland, cheering the man who overthrew him. Rebel hotspurs talked of seizing the fallen strongman and bringing him to trial. But the deep-rooted Latin American tradition of political asylum prevailed, and Juan Perón. gone with the winter, got a safe-conduct for a boat trip into Paraguayan exile...
Sworn in last week as Argentina's new President, replacing deposed Strongman Juan Perón: Major General Eduardo Lonardi. 59, a career officer whose name was unknown to most of his countrymen one week earlier Origins. Born Sept. 17, 1896. in Buenos Aires, son of a music teacher of Italian descent. Family name was originally Leonardi Military Career. Graduated from the national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected...
Died. José P. Tamborini. 69, physician, sometime translator, coalition candidate (Communist-Socialist-Radical) in the stormy 1946 Argentine presidential election, in which he was resoundingly defeated by the now deposed strongman Juan Peron (see THE HEMISPHERE); in Buenos Aires...