A Letter From The Publisher, May 23, 1949

Recently our latest request for a permit to admit TIME to Argentina, where TIME has been banned for the last 21 months, was refused. The occasion of this refusal seems to me to be as good a time as any to review the events leading up to it. They fit a pattern that has become familiar to TIME-LIFE International, publishers of our overseas editions, in its business of distributing TIME to anyone who wants to read it anywhere in the world.

TIME'S difficulties with the Government of President Juan Domingo PerĂ³n began when the Aug. 18, 1947 issue of TIME was banned...

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