HUGH DUNDAS who found the Argentine rebels successful, jubilant and proud at their
reports hoadquarters, now foars that face them in their capital.
the
LIKE SLEEPING IN A
HAUNTED ROOM
T
Buenos Aires, white police headquarters,
E revolution f the which they had captured at Argentine may be a heavy price in lives of over and done with, colleagues during the course The Peronists may be finish of a long, blocdy, and pri- the ed, Liberal-minded General mitive battle without Eduardo Lonardi may be help of any regular troops. firmly in power.
They hold me how they had I should know, because I been planning the uprising for in conjunction am sitting here in the heart many months
with Service lenders. of Buenos Aires, But I do
They explained how it not know for sure, because been decided that the heart
must be in the if ever I had a prickly feel the movement
provinces since Buenos Aires ing in my back it is In
was too strongly defended
newly liberated Buenos Peronisis, particularly
Aires.
18
had of
by the
blood-thirsty and brutal Alianza stormtroopers, whose motto was Peron or death" and whose drunk methoxis were quite as ruthless anything Hitler's bullyboys suns practised.
People, who behaved though they
were
with joy and relief, when Lonardi flew in to take over
After spending those days President,
now and meeting those people in the I felt happily con- looking over their shoulders, rebel area,
was well in
as
are
vlaced a
Either they cannot be Argentine lieve that Peron is finally finished and that they may
SHAKEN
the
say what they wish, or they After being flown to Buenos genuinely fear
that
troops with
by the Atres in a plane provided and Lonard himself, was shaken man, whose presence
to teel bullying portrait and strong men arrival
tommy-guns pre- and have overshadowed their venting me from phoning. lives for so long, still may insisting that I walk half a mile return to take vengeance from the airfield before trying
10 And transport. against them.
Wherever 1 go-to en- bassies, to government centres, to hotels, bars, and to restaurants, or even seamen's joints down on the
or
reas-
But I was completely nured by the tumultuous joy evident in Buenos Aires when Lonardi was sworn it.
that.
I
In the glorious mid-day sun- shine the city of Buenos Aires seemed like a heaven of hapni- 115. Certainly in no liberated waterfront--I hear the same elly during the last war did thing: "Have you heard of see such unconfined rejoicing,
But just a few hours las as here the uprising
Lo shadows the sun dropped,
was there have you hear, foll. In the streets gaiety have you heard, have you forced, people stayed in groups, glancing uneasily this way and heard?"
When I first got into the Where in the morning there Argentine after an alarming had been spontaneous laughter jokes chalked and highly irregular flight ut anti-Peronist
the through
stared, ice-bound up on
people only stood and the then moved on without com- gorges of the Andes, revolution was still in full ment.
the strects o'clock By ten
Uke swing.
which earlier had looked Piccadilly on VE night were al- inast deserted.
Restaurants and bars were I landed at Mendoza Air- closed. There were plenty
about port, which was the head- troops and armed police
street quarters of the victorious and
the and jubilant rebels in western part of the try.
SINCERITY
อ
corners.
walls and windows,
few tanks 011
coun- the lid on. Processions shouted
"Lity riud" but were ready run for it.
I was strongly impressed-
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A Vice-President In The News
NIXON'S RATING STANDS HIGH
T
IERE are
many
By JOHN MCKENNA
dropped lis Communist policy: and invited a 12-year-old Per- alan boy to the USA for three months as a reward for helping police break up a Communist ogainst him demonstration
a world tour. during a
Yet he could still turn on the then
McCarthyites and accuse
Americans who still Unlike his predecessors in office, Vice- believe that but for President Richard Nixon of the United a spaniel pup called Checkers, Richard Milhous States has never been far from the lime- Nixon would not be pulling light. Yet, never has the world spotlight down some $40,000 an-
of unfair tactics.
This, said those who favoured nually as Vice-President of picked him out as it has now. With Presi- the United States of dent Eisenhower in a sickbed, Nixon has
Nixon, was a sign that ther had to shoulder the burden of the world's man was maturing. America.
Back in 1952, during the Presidential election cam- most responsible job, He is even being opponents, this was Dickle being paign, Nixon was on the tipped as Eisenhower's successor in office. ahead of the wave of anti-Me-
was
otten
On the contriny, sald Nixon'a
Tricky, and staying Carthy Indignation.
one jump
Firm Roots
Nevertheless, there are far ferring to the Vice-President as Tricky Dielle nowadays,
l
་་་་་ spot. At a moment when the Republican Party
they suspected, had fions State Department official accusing its Democratic op- been accused by ex-Communist vocally, that Nixon was running for President a couple ponents of corruption and Whittaker Chambers of having harder
American Government of years chend than he was fewer people in the U.S.A. re- gruft, it was disclosed that passed
helping his party rum for the Nixon, the Republican can- secrets to Soviet Russia.
Hiss scoffed at the accuse next Congress. didate for the
Vice- twins. and the majority of the
But Nixon was stiil as am Whether Nixon's moderation
had lost he Presidency, was the bene- House of Representatives Com bitious as ever,
rapidly acquired vencer or whom he was much brestness with his eleva- the manifestation of a heartfelt mittee, before So I went on. Hejuicing with ficiary of a private political appearing, were anxious to call Hon to office.
that He still showed change, the fact remains fund.
uff the whole thing. All except himself relentlessly opposed to his rating stands high with the Political pundits were fore- Nixon that is.
Communism. *He urged the American public, is Armly root- Japanese, against whom he had ed and is growing. not only would custing that,
He Differed be completely
And already some pundits ere fought for four years, lo rearm Nixon's chances
against the threat of spreading saying that Checkers the spaniel smashed, but that he had prob-
the Communism; assured the South may soon have the rim of White ably also cost Eisenhower
In best Nixonian style,
America
Franklin would House lawns as did election.
man who was to become Vice- Koreans that Then, when things looked President confronted Hiss with never consider recognising Red Roosevelt's Scottie Falla.
country blackest, Nixon, with a gesture Chambers in a New York hotel China which could have been inate bedroom.
From then on Hiss'a unly in the United States, com-
ni goose was cooked.
In Sil vowing that America's pletely turned the tables. front of the TV cameras he laid policy must be to smite Com- bare the intimate financial de mimism in that bore
at home and abroad, found himself, in 1950, tails of his family, quoted the Nixon findings of independent auditors the youngest Senator to the effect that not a penny USA.
This has been a lower-middle by the fervour and sincerity and middle-class revolt. of all the men I met. There
is no doubt they had acted shopkeeper, and were acting from
It has been the revolt of the the small business who man, professional classes the could not stand any tonger being tredden down, highest motives as patriots pushed around, and Christians who had no denied freedom and justice, re- selfish ambitions.
them
ligion and dignity.
Jumong Brave spirits dually rose up in the name of Gud and the country, order.
WATCHING
that
the
in
the
showed
he
still
way,
When I got to Cordoba, the very heart of the revo- lution, I found the feeling of sincerity even stronger.
or the fund had gone into his But although Nixon There was elation and pride
told
of the old- pocket, and generally
all the hallmarks a They did so knowing
type American politicians, among those ragged, tired,
for they story of incorruptible poverty. and was little time left,
But what clinched his vin- differed from them-and bearded men-soldiers
knew that next month Peron
dication was the emotional docs in one Important had civilians aliko-who
as a rank was planning to scrap the army started this affair and whose and create in its place a huge punch-line. He had received, he He showed himself
one present of armed workers
from opponent of isolationism and a confessed, he- success In holding out force
the more brutal supporters which he refused to champion of foreign aid. cruited from
All the while he maintained Burrender no matter what any against Peron's loyalist elements of the General Con-
one said. It was a sparriel pup his attitude of open hostility Yet he troops had tipped the scales federation of Labour,
called Checkers which had won towards Communiam. But now the people think of
the hearts of his two little contrived to do so without all over the country.
of thousands of Unlike the navy which the hundreds
acquiring Joe McCarthy's rough whose daughters, Julia and Trishia. ones" sullen "shirtless
Despie for all could sail away, unlike the idol was Evita Peron and whose
of vast majority other lord and master, Juan Peron,
his humble begirailings, he made himself completely at home in troops
and police who had trained them to revel the business of reviling all
That did it. Nixon-and the Washington's social whirl. civilians their way. unlike
With wavered,
Republicans were in the clear.
his pretty wife Pat. The ability to exploët skuas former shorthand teacher, ha everywhere, they had faced It is those hundreds of thou
gands and their fanatical leaders Lions like this, his unashamed made sure he was seen where a victory or death.
whe now from their vast in appeal to emotionalism, won for rising young politico ought to They had won, and very dustrial suburb of Avellaneda Nixon from his enemies
the bo
seen always atrable; simply they attributed their send a ray of ferr to douse tho of reloicing in Buenos victory to God. All they spirit wanted was to go home and Aires.
On the face of it there A leave someone else to govern
certain reason to bo every the country they had Peron is finished and that
Lonard Government has come. liberated.
plete power to rule..
In
in
diamond reputand In The Clear his lack of years o
neckname "Tricky Dickie." ** courteously determined,
ם
the
At the same time, the Demo- picture of a young American on crats learned that Richard the way up. Milhous Nixon, the young lawyer from California, the
was a
บ
All Changed
C.
man to be watched and feared. Ho never had been populer with them. They viewed with But oven ambitious Richard The composition of the new suspicion his rapid rise from Nixon was shaken out of his IMPRESSIVE Cabinet BCCTILE to confirm obscurity on the strength of his smiling composure when on the he Lonardi's determination not to anti-Communist work 03 a afternoon of July 11, 1952,
from The quiet, earnest replace the Peron regime with
member of the Un-American received a telephone call Activities Committee. been a military government.
His General Eisenhower and knew Lonardi, who had
Apart from Service Ministries enemies accused him of being he was on the way to being No. sticking his neck out or-
and the post of Vice-President,
Jou
McCarthy in a clean 2 man in the USA. ganising this revolution for which goes to Admiral Rojus collar," ready to holler "Red" With the aid of Chockers the years, seemed then, as I as recognition for his outsland-
any time he thought it might spaniel, he survived the uproar over his political fund, and first met him surrounded by ing role in the revolt, top jobs win him a fow votes.
Until he got himself looted with pre exception became the the shaggy, tired-eyed have gone to civilians, and they
are all without strong political to Congress es. the member youngest Vice-President in the officers who had led the amliations.
from his native state of Call history of the United States.
Nixon's cared could (John
Breckinridge fight, the perfect symbol of Newspapers have brought out tornia,
big editions, in contrast with have doubled for any megazine Kentucky was elected Vico revolt.
of Peronista plug for the American way of President at these of 36 m
1837.) He did not rant, he did the flimsy issues
ite. daya. Confiscated papers such as not call
Ho had come up the hard Until Nixon's term, the for vengeance La Prensa are expected to be
way, and, for a youngster, we of Vice-President had always against anyone. He was calm returned to their ownere.
to making a real go of . Frore been regarded ni But have you over de and completely impressive.
and workdow
in a village grocery like a sinecure. But will Prot
Eisenhower's And when next morning sleep in a haunted room
bore, he had worked the way dent ta tried talling" yourself thera
poproval. I mat the leaders of the every reason
to suppose
the through college and lay school, former underground moves ghost won't appear?.
Whatever your redród my 1s profiable and growing Irw ment who had come to tell you, however right the practice to serve with the myy of the big-hentica gesture, or Cordoba to take part in the nights, wou watch av order for four geam in the Soul lieutenan who warned kay Pake fighting, I got the same in And that is what the altoona, pression. They were gather of Buenos Aires Adoinks Hilda really grand to toe bonku" shouldder, diagn
They are welching the corners. Hitloadfume for him work on the dos Cynici Veit an ed in the ancient pink and
and when war broke out be low Pow that NEVE
Imbert
Pro-Nixonites acclained the
rybil
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