ARGENTINA: The Crack-Up

Argentines rid themselves of their military dictator last week. But they were not rid of the military.

Out of the turbulence of toppling cabinets, armed revolt and panic which rocked Buenos Aires and the Argentine nation, three facts emerged: 1) Colonel Juan Domingo Perón was out cold; 2) General Eduardo Avalos, new Minister of War, held the sword-hand; 3) democratic Argentines, united in a common front, were in no mood to accept anything less than the full restoration of constitutional government.

A clique of colonels had sprung Perón into power in 1943. Last...

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