The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13

CluUc now III tue bhuuic lo ilOI IColAy pro-Nazi. Don't let the maneuvers fool you. though. The day Argen- lAina returns to the democratic camp will not dawn until Colonel Juan Peron and General Luis Per- Iinger-Argentine fascisms Number one and Two Boys-are jailed or hung by @ new non-militatry govt of the people.
 While the United Nations forces battle to liberate Europe, the three cornered fight for control of Argen- tina, is also roaring to climax, Buenos Aires is today witnessing a battle between Peron Perlinger and the decent citizens of the once great democracy. Peron and Per- finger are fighting it out with each other for the post of Number One But they get together to keep representative government from coming back to the Pampas. Peron (War, Labor, and Welfare Minister is on top right now. Chief of the GOU, the clique of Argentine brass hats who pushed Argentina into fascism 8 year ago, Peron has so far made and broken two of the three presidents" to sit in the Casa Rosada since the New Order came to Argentina. General Farrell, cur- rent puppet president has strings which are pulled only by Peron.
 Both Peron and Perlinger are be- hind Fritz Mandl tHedy Lamarr's ex), who is running the armaments industry in Argentina with Nazi backing. Mandl has emerged in re- cent months as a particular buddy of Perlinger But Peron is his oest customer .. Mandl, who claims to be a refugee from Hitlers Europe, managed to bring out plenty of cash from Europe. He bought heavily into the old Mihanovich line of river steamers which one-time immi- grant boy built into multi-milion- peso transportation monopoly link Ing Argentina, Uruguay and Para quay For public consumption, Maridl insists that he's chiefly inter- ested in running a bicycle factory but the bicycles that come out of the Mandl plants in B. A. seem to have caterpillar treads, steel armor, gasoline engines and turret guns. Mandl's plants are making munitions and war material-as are dozens of other converted factories < in the industrial Avellaneda district of Buenos Aires. Plants that for merly turned out everything from bottle tops to car couplings are now making shells, guns and explosives And the methods, the know-how and and experience Mandl gained in Europe are being employed to help convert these plants into the largest and most efficient war plants In Latin America.
 Tho Argentine military clique gets modeNs of tanks, guns and other war materials from Germany throuHh fascist Spain .. ;. With these and with Mandls genius and or ganizing ability, they have been able to produce reasonable facsimiles aS lethal as the originals. All of thii is kept very hush-hush, and em- ployes in war plants are under tighter wraps that defense workers in the U. s. Army men are in charge of every war plant -. Mandl has produced fairly good small tank, and his plants are tool ing up for vastly increased produc- ton. Because many of the items they need can no longer be import ed, the Argentine fascists have been forced to evolve substitutes by the hundreds Argentina pro- duces as great a variety of vital raw materials for war as almost any other Latin American country. The tie-in with tin-and-tungstein-ri Bolivia has had more to it than Ar gentinas desire to see a similar regime in La PaZ,
 Next to Mandl, the most important non-official personality in Buenos Aires today is woman, actress Eva Durante-known as Evita Littlt Eva) to the disgusted Argentinian' .. Before the putsch of June 4th l943, Evita was a small-time radio actress more noted for her triumphs as a playboy's girls friend than a! an artist. After the putsch, Evits went in for colonels in big way First to fall to Evita'S buxom charm. was Colonel Anibal F. Imbert. Ht happened to be the new military di' rector of Radio communications Through the smitten martinet, Evitt signed up a fabulous contract witt Radio Belgrano, one of the Biz Three of Argentina radio.
 Evita knew how to use her col onels A few months after sh' hooked Colonel Imbert. the work famous Teatro del Pueblo got int trouble with the authorities becaus' sf its pro- democratic plays. An ennis sary was sent to the theater's di rector intimating that if Evita wa appointed leading lady condition would improve. Two weeks after thi offer was rejected, the theater wa taken over by the authorities. ant ths Army appointed a new director The Teatro del Pueblo is still run ming, but t plays to empty bouSeG To distract public interest from il rival. officially subsidized muni cipal theater has been set up witt Evita's name in lights Whel Radio Belgrano signed Eyita at S3, poo pesos monthly. radio fan thought that the stations peso might as well have been thrown il the drink. They soon paid dividends however. when the station wa saved from suspension for violation ef new regulations . Eita pu hn the fix.
 Evita's triumph became cOmplet when she set her sights for the bes colonel a rising young actress cal own in Argentina-C0lonel Juan [
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