Old Reliable Line

In need of a scapegoat to blame for his inflation troubles, Juan Peron last week scrapped his recent policy of sweet forbearance to the U.S. (adopted after President Eisenhower's inauguration) and took a running dive back on to his old, angry anti-U.S. line. In his annual message to the reconvening Congress, Peron accused U.S. press services of an "infamous campaign of lies" to spread the idea that Argentina is undergoing a crisis. (A bomb, the eighth in Buenos Aires that day, burst one block from the Congress building while he was speaking.) That afternoon, at the jammed Plaza de Mayo, Peron blamed rising prices, the shortage of meat and the wave of bombings on an Unnamed "foreign power." Next day his newspaper Democracies, obligingly made the identification clear: "What is the name of our enemy in plain language? The United States of America."

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