Word: sammartino
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Time to Fight. Following the expulsion of Radical Deputy Ernesto Sammartino from the Argentine Chamber, 42 anti-Peronista deputies had refused to sit with the Peronista majority (TIME, Aug. 16). That opened the way for a field day of rubber-stamping...
From his hiding place, Deputy Sammartino sent his party a dire forecast. "The fact that I am going underground is only the beginning. Tomorrow all of you will have to join...
Meanwhile, Sammartino, his congressional immunity lost, has gone underground. Perón's federal police have raided his home, and spread a net for him the length of Argentina...
Dance Time. When it came time for bristling, mustachioed Sammartino to defend himself, he spoke with measured insolence. "We have not come here to do obeisance to the lash nor to dance to Madame Pompadour's tune," said he. "This is not a fashionable nightclub or the anteroom of a palace. It is the parliament of a free people, and it should be made plain to the people here & now that this Chamber will not obey the commands of meddling old colonels, nor heed orders given in perfumed letters from the boudoir of any ruler...
Grave Decision. Sammartino and his supporters then marched off to Radical Party headquarters in the Calle Tucumán. There all 42 Radical deputies handed in their resignations from Congress. This week a party convention will act on them. The party's decision will be a grave one. The Senate is already 100% Peronista. Should the party reject the resignations, thus keep alive political opposition in the Perón-dominated Chamber? Or should it accept, hoping somehow to force a crisis that would embarrass...