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The United States, Argentina, and the End of the First Perón Government, 1953–1955

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War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy 1942–62

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The Argentina of the 1940s and 1950s was a difficult puzzle to solve for the men in charge of US foreign policy, especially those responsible for economic and military cooperation. It was Ambassador James Bruce’s ‘perplexing society’, historian Arthur Whitaker’s political ‘kaleidoscope’, and a ‘riddle’, as defined by Felix Weil, a one-time Buenos Aires-based observer.1

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  1. University of Aarhus, Denmark

    Dale Carter (Associate Professor of American Studies) (Associate Professor of American Studies)

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Rapoport, M., Spiguel, C. (2002). The United States, Argentina, and the End of the First Perón Government, 1953–1955. In: Carter, D., Clifton, R. (eds) War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy 1942–62. Cold War History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403913852_8

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