ARGENTINA: Peron's Real Aim

Behind locked doors for five days last February, President Juan Perón and top advisers met with Argentina's 16 provincial governors. Last week a report of their candid conversations leaked out.

"The Rest Are Barbarians." "Just think what I have accomplished with the Argentine people," said Juan Perón. "In 1944, if I had asked who thought as I did, the immediate answer would have been: 'Nobody. We all disagree with you.' But then I began to work . . .

"Now, it would be difficult to imagine a more advantageous situation than ours—a national government composed entirely of

Peronistas, 16 provincial governments composed...

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