ARGENTINE ELECTIONS

Grey River Argus, 1 February 1946, Page 5

ARGENTINE ELECTIONS

COL. PERON‘S CHARGES Opponents Trying for Revolution (Rec. 10.50). NEW YORK, Jan. 30. Colonel Feron, who is a candidate for the Presidency of Argentina, in an interview, charged the Government’s political opponents with seeking to prevent the national elections being held on February 24, and also charged them with smuggling arms into Argentina across the La Plata River, says the New York “Times” Buenos Aires correspondent. Colonel Peron said that the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires is involved in the movement. He declared that the Argentine relations with President Roosevelt’s Government were good. Argentina had pledged her complete co-operation with the United States armies for hemispheric defence, but Mr Roosevelt’s death was the greatest blow that Argentina had suffered. Ambassador Braden had then arrived in Buenos Aires, and he cancelled the plans for military co-operation. Colonel Peron said that he and Mr Braden had quarrelled often, “but”, he added, “I never attacked the United States as Mr. Braden has attacked us.” Colonel Feron insisted that his regime was closer to the New Deal than to Nazism or to Fascism. He claimed that -he had full support of the under-privileged class in the country, because he had carried out long needed wage and social reforms. • He was asked about his alleged connection with Nazis in Aigentina. Col onel Peron replied: "I would just as soon wring any Nazi’s neck.”