ARGENTINA PROTESTS AT ALLEGED INSULTS TO MRS PERON

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 September 1947, Page 7

ARGENTINA PROTESTS AT ALLEGED INSULTS TO MRS PERON

NEW YORK, Sept. 23. Regret that “some sections of the American press are endeavouring to discredit the Argentine Republic’ was expressed by. the Argentine Embassy in the United States today in a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times signed by Mr Martin Drago, Argentine charge d’affaires. Alleging “a campaign of insults, vilification, and slander” against Mrs Peron, wife of the Argentine President, the advertisement says: “The Argentine Embassy does not intend lowering itself to discuss any part of such articles designed evidently to insult the Argentine people in the person of the first lady of Argentina. But it wants to inform the American people that the same groups as want to break inter-American solidarity and to harm the friendship, collaboration,. and unity that guide relations between the United States and Argentina are now desperately trying . to undermine the efforts of both nations to work in an atmosphere of peace and

co-operation in the solution of problems that affect the Western Hemisphere.”