Scandinavian American. [volume], June 01, 1947, Page 2, Image 2

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Slight Case of Peronitonitis
80-0-0. everything is mucho felicidad y sympatico be—
tween nuestrn (lulce Tio Samuel 3' Juan Peron of Al‘-
g‘entina. All is forgiven, todos is buttoned up, except
the small matter of a quarter-billion-dollar groan the
South American Mussolini hopes, assuredly with confi
dence. of putting; on Uncle Sam.
Of course, we might have expected this when the
announcement of felicity, sympathy and understanding
came more than a week ago. But just the same, when,
the other day, Argentina’s government (which is Senor
Peron, grandissima, totalamente y solamente) served no
tice that we might expect to see a roscoe, speaking
with a Spanish accent, poked through the wicket at the
I'nited States Treasury with the stern suggestion that
two hundred and fifty million dollars would be about
right as a first payment for the purpose of making a
bad neighbor good. we were made a little breathless,
we'll admit. “ ‘Tis much money. a helluva lot of du
cats," as Shyloc’k might have said to noble Bassanio but
didn't (not quite) for a fleeting moment of love—mak
in}: with a scuora as inconstant as a zephyr, as unpre
dictable as a wild heifer of the pampas.
It all happened this way. mi Americano paisanos:
Argentina flirted with Mussolini and Hitler almost for
the duration of the recent war, after all other Latin
American republics had joined the United States in
the fight. Argentina didn‘t change horses in the middle
of the stream. The Fascist stream was drained by allied
blasting. leaving Argentina sitting on a locoed horse
in the dry bottom.
\\'ith llitler and Mussolini and Hirohito knocked out
of the box (how easy to mix metapliorsl), Argentina’s
leaders changed their team but not their minds. Uncle
Sam tried diplomatic pressure, but it didn't work. Ar
gentina continued as a haven of Nazis and Fascists.
She is that today. She has “deported“ a few totalitarian
leaders—perhaps across.the border to Paraguay or
Brazil or ['i'tig‘uay, where they may be expected to carry
on. Recently Mussolini's son. Vittorio, was welcomed
in i I G?
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in Rio with open arms, maybe a little ticker tape, too.
A Catholic priest, claiming to have been Mussolini’s
confessor (What a job that padre must haVe had!)
spoke at a reception to the clay-footed caesar's son,
praising Fascism and Nazism and reviling the democra
cies. Now we are told the priest was given twenty-four
hours to get out of Argentina. Such a silliness we are
expected to believe!
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Peron is a dictator as absolute as any that ever ruled
a country by fiat. He has not been as cruel as some,
only because, perhaps, he has not had to be. In all of
Argentina there is no freedom of the press. There is
no freedom of religion—as might be expected in a
Catholic country in which the church is the handmaiden
of the state—and the state is Peron.
In short, Argentina is ruled by precisely the kind of
government democratic America is Supposed to have
fought a war to end. So is Greece, with scoundrels and
thieves and racketeers supplying the “democratic”
leadership. So is Turkey, a tight dictatorship, with or
without scoundl'els.
Greece and Turkey already have been voted their
first payments on “democracy" from the American tax
payer. Soon Argentina will have hers.
And in America ‘3 An intelligent, Christian ‘gentleman,
once holder of high office. goes about the country op
posing, not President Truman directly, by the under
lying“ principle involved in the kind of hypocritical
“statesmanship” now being demonstrated in our Na
tional Capital. He talks peace—always peace and un
derstanding. What does beggar Britain call him?
“VVoolly-brain.” And what is he called in the Ameri
can press? “Visionary,” “crackpot.”
Well, we suppose we are, too. Adios, suckers! Viva
la Peronitonitis!
Danes Ponder Restoration
Of Ancient Iron Industry
COPENHAGEN —- Research sci
entists are reviewing the possibili-I
ties of res-establishing the long
forgotten iron industry of Den-'
‘mark, which for hundreds of years
supplii'd the people of Ulis country
with iron for swords and tools of
peace. .
Through the finding of oxtensivv
beds of brown voal. or lignitc. in
Jutland recently, the incentive to
commence the industry again is
lrathor popular, also because of the
ishortage of raw material for this
industry.
1 The smiths of Denmark in the
early days were artists at their
trade. and made the most ingen
icus things.
In the shelter of the then great
forests of Denmark, in the 15th
and 16th centuries, iron' making
flourished. The smiths built their
own forges, choosing a fairly high
hill; they felled their fuel and
hammered the iron on their own
anvils. Kings, warriors. and peas
ants were their customers.
Their furnaces were naturally
rather primitive. and so were the
methods for extracting the iron.
A hole in a hill was filled with
charcoal. on which the material
containing the iron was laiq. When
the whole had ignited, the prim
itive bellows ware put in action.
As the mass shrunk more mater
ial was added. the process contin
uing for about 10 hours. the result
being a cindery mass full of iron
grains.
The glowing lump was removed.
broken up in small pieces and re
molted to remove the charcoal
completely from the iron. it being
then ready for hammering into
shape.
Historical documents from the
middle ages mention the iron in
dustry, not only in Jutland at
Vraad. Lysgaard. and Bid. but al
so in North Sjaelland. In the reign
of King Hans (1481-1513, the
Crown owned iron works in Skaane
ISwedon. then belonging to Den
mark), whence the smiths of
On the initiative of its president,
Arvid Lundquiat. the American So
ciety of Swedish Engineers in New
York has decided to set up a
scholarship fund for young Swe
dish and American engineers. So
far, $4.000 has been collected.
which will be divided in annual
awards 01.3800 each.
' 1
Copenhagen received iron for thvl
-making of anchors for the Navy.
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