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THE AMERICAS: For Freedom

To Manhattan last week came one of the Hemisphere's foremost political refugees, Alberto Gainza Paz, editor and publisher of Buenos Aires' La Prensa before it was throttled by Juan Perón. Next month Manhattan's Freedom House will honor him with a bronze plaque, "in grateful recognition of devotion to a free press and inter-American friendship." U.S. newsmen found Gainza Paz neither bitter nor bowed. "The real democratic Argentina," he said, "will survive." And La Prensa, he added, will also survive: "You can expropriate the machinery of a newspaper but not the spirit. Freedom always wins...

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