President Maj. Gen. Eduardo Lonardi head of Argentina’s new government, pledged today to “respect” all religions in the country and to guarantee their rights. In a statement in which he referred to the freedom of worship, the Provisional President said: “It will be my constant purpose to keep unaltered the respect and the guarantee of rights of the church and religious conscience of everybody whatever his faith.”
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