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...Juan Peron campaigned mainly against U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden, who had been rash enough to criticize Peron's dictatorial style. Last week, as the President prepared to run for a second term in 1952, Argentina's government loosed a blast against Peron's favorite electioneering target, the U.S. The attack was launched in the front page of Buenos Aires' semi-official newspaper Democrada, in an editorial signed by "Descartes," a writer generally believed to be Peron himself. Wrote Descartes...
...About this point, our left gunner said we had a fire in the wing between the engines. We prepared to bail out, but then we decided to ride it out for a while. All the time we were headed for our secondary target, the marshaling yards at Sariwon. You know, you're up there in a million-dollar airplane. Damn it, you've got to bomb...
Combat training in thickly populated, highly cultivated Germany is not as simple as in the vast forest and desert areas of the U.S. Fighter bombers must fly across the Mediterranean to Tripoli for target practice. The Army's biggest antiaircraft guns must be transported up to the Danish frontier in the British zone for firing. The 4th will not find any area in Germany large enough for its divisional maneuvers. One of the emerging facts of military history is that Hitler's generals managed to train more than 100 divisions of his Wehrmacht without being able to maneuver...
Though A.P. was the target of last week's shooting, there were indications that the rival United Press might be in more immediate danger of being squeezed out of Argentina. U.P. had long supplied an elaborate overseas news report (under a fat $8,000-a-week contract) to Perón's mortal foe, La Prensa. The very charge on which Perón expropriated La Prensa was that it relied on U.P.'s service and was therefore a foreign-bossed enterprise. In a recent chat with Reuters' Buenos Aires chief, Perón reportedly accused...
...Journal editorial writer and columnist. Instead of retiring into an ivory tower, he went right on crusading, though often in such minor-and popular -causes as the lack of courtesy among bus drivers. This spring, Bob Collins turned his fire on a bigger target...