ARGENTINA: Per

Would its tough Argentine policy be a success? The U.S. would get a quick answer at this Sunday's election. If democratic candidate José P. Tamborini won, so had the U.S. If totalitarian Perón were elected President, it would take more than words to blast him out of Argentina's Casa Rosada.

Campaign Finals. As time grew short, Perón quickened his already kinetic campaign. He harangued a Buenos Aires mass meeting which turned into a circus because tumultuous rain had shorted loudspeakers, evinced fear for his life ("any move against my person will bring civil war in 48 hours"), barnstormed up &...

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