In happier circumstancesfor Argentina, at any rateJuan Domingo Perón might have made an excellent naval damage-control officer. Last week he set coolly about the job of containing and repairing his losses from the June revolt. For President Perón, the single worst damage from the explosion was public outrage at the burning of nine Roman Catholic churches by Peronista arsonists (see below). It was to the task of conciliating the church, with the least possible loss of face, that he turned first.
Perón had already called for the election of a constituent assembly with the sole task of divorcing the church from...