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OCTOBER 1, 1955.
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Cardinal Urges Argentine Cathodes
To Work For Peace As Peron Resigns
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
BUENOS AIRES — Argentine
Catholics were urged to work for
peace in their country in the
wake of President Juan D. Pe-
ron’s forced resignation after a
nine-year dictatorial rule mark
ed by the suppression of con
stitutional freedoms.
The call came from His Emi
nence Santiago Luis Cardinal
Copello, Archbishop of Buenos
Aires, who spoke over the state
radio after a military junta had
. been named tq negotiate with
insurgent leaders who had rais
ed the standard of revolt in
strategic centers throughout the
provinces.
“In the name of Jesus Christ,
the Prince of Peace, Who is
dominant in the hearts of the Ar
gentines,” Cardinal Copello de
clared, “we ask that all sectors
take attitudes that may be neces
sary to attain peace and frater
nal union for the welfare of the
people and the glory of the fath
erland.”
The occasion marked the
first time that the Cardinal, who
is 75, and has been ailing for a
long time, went on the air since
Peron initiated his anti-Church
campaign last November by ac
cusing some Bishops and priests
of "plotting” against the state.
The Cardinal’s appeal was
heard after jubilant anti- per-
onist demonstrators had heard a
statement by Peron declaring
that “if my spirit as a fighter im
pels me to the fight (against the
insurgents), my patriotism and
my love for the people induce
me to resign.”
The President’s . statement was
broadcast by his chief of the
“Command of Repression” Gen
eral Franklin Lucero, who also
tendered his own “irrevocable”
resignation as^ Minister of the
Army. There were many con
flicting reports meanwhile as to
the whereabout of the ousted
chief executive who weeks earli
er had made what was obviously
a spurious offer to resign, since
it was immediately followed by
a ; mass demonstration of loyalty
by the General Confederation of
Labor, long one of his main pil
lars of support.
The new army government
took measures to tighten their
control on the capital after re
ports that leaders of the peronist
labor organization were planning
to call a general strike in sup
port of Peron. It was recalled
that such a strike was staged in
1945 to restore the President to
power ..after a military clique had
jailed him. Recently the Con
federation had offered to con
vert its 6,000,000 members into
an armed militia to repress the
“enemies” of the government.
Army leaders rejected the offer.
Coming almost three months
to the day after the abortive re
volt of June 16, the new upris
ing served to point up Peron’s
failure to live up to the promises
he had made to restore the con
stitutional liberties his regime
had so long denied.
The June revolt was staged
by discontented elements of the
navy, but the new uprising found
all branches of the armed serv
ices-—army, navy and air force
—joined in a struggle to oust
a President who had been find
ing it harder and harder to pre
serve peace and harmony in the
nation.
While a large segment of the
army continued to align itself
with Peron, other elements, long
irritated by efforts to “peronize”
them, decided to throw in their
fortunes with 50-year-old Brig.
Gen. Dalmiro Videla Balaguer, I
who was said to have planned a
previous revolt on September 8
which failed to come off because
its plans were betrayed.
The insurgents were generally
considered, however, to be wag
ing more than a battle against
the efforts Peron has made to
hold the army in his personal
power through such devices as
rewards on the one hand and
“breaking” officers on the other.
In the eyes of most anti- per-
onists, the rebels had taken up
arms against injustices and
abuses also in the political and
economic fields. Neither busi
ness interests nor independent
politicians have been able to
tolerate the exactions and inti
midations that have been part
and parcel of the Peron adminis
tration.
Another factor in the struggle
was the relentless campaign
which the Peron regime . had I
waged against the Catholic
Church in an effort to weaken
its prestige and influence in a
country which is more than 90
per cent Catholic.
Many of the insurgent army
leaders *are loyal and practicing
Catholics, who have more than
once made it clear that they op-
posed Peron’s anti-religious
measures.
Ant i-P e r o n sentiment had
grown steadily among the
mass of Catholic citizens since
the looting and burning of Cath
olic churches by peronist mobs
in the wake of the June revolt.
Nor had they forgotten the burn
ing of the national flag by peron
ist agents who had hoped to foist
the blame on Catholics.
The new revolt sprouted from
Cordoba, the city of 350,000 pop
ulation in Central Argentina,
which is both a leading opposi
tion center and the nation’s
greatest Catholic stronghold.
Only a few days before rebels
seized strategic centers there,
police had begun a hunt for an
18-year-old student of Cordoba
University who had shocked per
onist officials by publicly de
nouncing President Peron as a
tyrant and dictator. The occasion
was a ceremony to honor the
memory of President Sarmiento,
who died in 1888. Commenting
later on the action of the stu
dent, who had been scheduled
to give a speech on Sarmiento,
another student said: “We want
people abroad to know that Ar
gentine youth has not been cow
ed by Peron.”
It is generally believed here
that one of the major reasons
for the revolt also was the ar
my’s opposition to the pro-Peron
General Confederation of Labor,
which is one of the strongest
bulwarks of the regime.
K. 0. Squires !
ATLANTA, Ga. — Septembsr
has been a busy month for the
Columbian Squire Circle 812 in
Atlanta as they initiated a new
circle in Columbus (there are
now two circles in Georgia), had
a bowling party, picnic and soft-
ball game and a group commu
nion and breakfast. The Circle,
organized last Spring, is really
becoming active this fall and
looks forward to many varied
activities.
A noted Catholic has been
named a top official in the state
education ministry of Lower
Saxony. The appointment went
to Ignaz Jung, who has been
made state secretary of the min
istry of culture.
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