After two months of military government President Pedro Ramirez and his Cabinet of generals and admirals last week met and solemnly decided what Argentina needed most: a good Red Hunt.
Toward this end the Government:
> Suspended 32 Communist papers;
> Jailed an estimated 1,000 Communists;
> Burned 80,000 books valued at 300,000 pesos, including volumes by Upton Sin clair, John Dos Passes, Karl Marx, and the Dean of Canterbury's Soviet Power;
> Closed 344 social and political clubs charged with Communist infiltration;
> Shut down unions representing 75% of labor, jailed an...
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