Raids On Party In Argentina
(Rec. 11.40 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, November 14. Fifteen Communist leaders were arrested today in a dawn raid on the party’s headquarters by Federal police. A number of dynamite sticks, small bombs, blackjacks and knives were seized, together with a large quantity of printed propaganda. The raid came as qualified diplomatic sources said the Argentine Government appeared to be moving towards a break of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay are the only Latin American countries with diplomatic ties with Moscow. Yesterday, the entire Communist Party membership, estimated at more than 60.000, was barred from the forthcoming General Elections for delegates to a National Assembly to reform the Argentine Constitution. A squad of assault guards, armed with tommy-guns and wearing bullet-proof vests, broke into the Communist head-, quarters at dawn. Some Communists fled across the roofs of adjoining houses.
While the raid was progressing, Federal police threw a heavy cordon around the Russian Embassy, reaching as far as 10 blocks from the building.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 13
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