If 1945 divide the history of the twentieth century, the month of August of that year will also mark A hinge moment in the world and for Argentina. In effect, the end of World War II and the electoral mouth of the “revolutionary” dictatorship established two years earlier in our country will coincide.
But what kind of peace would come in that postwar period? And what democracy is what would be possible to find after the recovery of suffrage? To these great questions was the first editorial of Clarionthat Tuesday, August 28, ’45still under the impact of devastated Europe and Hiroshima and Nagasakiand on the eve of other national and international events that would surprise observers and protagonists:“The environment is loaded with misunderstandings and suspicion whose cultivation will not help solve our multiple problems. But, to successfully guide us, we Argentines have in the Constitution an unbeatable compass. Its principles have been and will be the safest basis for the practice of freedom and democracy in which civilized peoples wish to live and progress.”
That editorial pointed out that these principles were not incompatible “With the economic order renovations that evolution advises in With the conquests of social justice that must be incorporated into the moral and material heritage of the people of the Republic. Assume that the Constitution, supported by force, can be the dike containing the working masses on the path of their fair claims It is falling into a dangerous mirage. This is equivalent to the opposite error of imagining that only outside the fundamental law is possible to carry out certain types of economic-social programs”.
And in another section, he raised: “The Argentine unit will not be achieved without computing to each and every one of the great factors of national life. To unite you have to reconcile. And if you are talking about conciliation, you think about excluding someone, so the idea of conciliation is nothing but an unscrehensible to fish. The Argentine people are in favor of a conciliation without exclusions”.
Eighty years later, the rereading of those lines resonates with its echoes and reverberations on the present. Again, the world travels A narrow gorge between war and peacewith war settings without resolution at sight.
And democracies, tension by the erosion of political coexistence, authoritarian drifts in the exercise of power and the weakening of social coexistence based on equality before law and respect for human dignity, within nations and in the relationship between them, they face Comparable challenges and tensions with those of those times.