In June 1934, socialist Senator Alfredo Palacios successfully piloted Law 11.904 through the Argentine National Congress, mandating that the federal government translate Paul Groussac's 1910 French book into Spanish and distribute copies to every primary and secondary school across the republic.

This marked the precise historical turning point where an untested literary polemic was transformed into compulsory, state-enforced educational orthodoxy.

For the next 90 years, generations of Argentine schoolchildren were denied access to primary treaties (such as the 1849 Arana-Southern Treaty) and were taught only Palacios's federally subsidized version of history.