ARGENTINA: Forbidden Truth

Buenos Aires' nationalist, snide Tribuna, long accustomed to reporting Colonel Juan Domingo Perón's triumphs in Argentina, published evidence of the Colonel's expanding popularity abroad. Its correspondent reported:

"I have seen . . . workers parading along the streets and shouting, 'We want an American Perón!' . . . Charcoal or chalk signs reading 'Hurrah Perón' and 'Up Perón' are a common sight.

"But here . . . they do not suppress demonstrations with harmless tear gas; shooting does the trick. Many a man remains lying on the streets, but not even as a joke does one read any reference to these events....

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