"He was picked up in Buenos Aries at 11 p.m. one night without any charges against him and crowded first into a car and then a plane. For eight hours he had no idea of where he was or where he was being taken. At 7 a.m. the next morning he was released in Uruguay, without any Argentina re-entry papers."

Allende said news of the story was suppressed at the time because of the danger of breaking relations with Argentina.

Incidents like this, besides examples of violence by the Peronists which he cited, aroused the Labor Party official against the lack of United States' policy in Argentina.

"While there is so much concern about supporting liberties in places like Kores, there is no concern of peoples oppressed by tyrants in other parts of the world, as long as those tyrants claim to be anti-Communist," he said.

No United Front

"With that kind of solidarity by the democratic governments I doubt if there will be any real united front to fight the Communist totalitarianism."

Allende, an expert on South American affairs, described Argentina's economic situation as "acute." He pointed to the decreased output of wheat in Argentina, once the world's second largest wheat exporter, and said the country was now forced to import at least 6 million bushels yearly from the U.S. Allende cited this and decreased industrial outputs as results of the growing "passive resistence" to the Peron regime.

"The current nation-wide strike of 50,000 students shows what is really happening in Argentina," he said.

He referred to strikes of students, traditionally one of the most active political groups in Argentina, which broke out six weeks ago because the government made them join a Peron front organization. In 1946, when Peron came into power, all Argentine university professors were forced to join a similar organization, causing 1600 to resign