Dictator's Grim Warning To Opponents

Chronicle (Levin), 11 September 1948, Page 5

Dictator's Grim Warning To Opponents

Received Friday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 9. Juan D. Peron, Argentina's tempestuous President, has threatened to hang those who oppose his plans to reform the Repuhlic's Constitution. In a nationwide "broadcast from the inland city of Santa Fe, President Peron said: "I who pardoned: them all the acts they have committed against the nation, who have asked peace, who have asked tranquility — my voice will not tremble on the day I order them all to be hanged." Under the constitutional reform which President Peron promulgated into law last week the President is given unlimited powers whenever he considers an emergency exists. Earlier both Hottses of Congress adopted the measure and what opposition exists can scarcely now hope to halt the reform. In his broadcast, President Peron said he and his followers knew where they were going and what they wanted. It was time the opposition knew this too, "because it will cost them dearly if they forget that in this land when it has been necessary to impose the will of the people it has not mattered what number of Argentines had to die to impose it. We have offered them peace and work in collahoration with u's. But let them learn, and . learn once and for all, that if they want war they are going to get war. And above all, let them know that if they decide in favour of war either ■ tliey or ourselves are going to be annihilated."