Juan Perón extended his war against the free press to the big U.S. news agencies serving Argentine newspapers. Last week Associated Press came under heavy fire for picking up a Rio report that Perón had arrested his atomic energy expert, Dr. Ronald Richter (TIME, May 28). One Perónista newspaper raged at A.P. as "anti-Argentine." Another, in a curious echo of Pravda's familiar vocabulary, blasted the agency as a practitioner of "gangster journalism" and an agent in a "persistent and infamous plan to attack the Argentine republic."
Though A.P. was the target of last week's shooting, there were indications that the...
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