Peron's State

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....

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