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NEW CLASSLESS TORYISM
"The Tory Party has widened its base and
outgrown the old image of wealth and pruilcge—says ECCLES,MB) eptimistically.
ELECTION LINE
THE
Whoa!
Got a nerve, haven't you chum 2
World Copyright. By arrangement with Delly Hefeta.
Frank Owen
okamines Eva Peron's 3-way claim to election
CANDIDATE'S WIFE
LL day long and far into the night the largest
mob
on
earth shouted and sang under the trees in the Avenida Ninth of July, the
boulevard broadcast earth.
on
The bands endlessly play- ed the March, of the Peron Boys, the Boche-helmeted Peronista, Guard
stepped, the loud- speakers blared, and the planes
painted the sky
with two words,
and
"Eva."
"Peron"
be
goose..
NAZAME PERON Bula eter Tor Melesty not before a mag-waving, bakroery-phamelij"brown:
-BUYS HER WAY INTO A No. 2 JOB
Evlia Duarie Peron to be Vice-
The ocremony of "accepting the will of the people" by the two Perons was the finale of u campaign which
has
Leen gathering force for a year.
Eva spoke for 42 minutes, and was apparently on the verge of an emotional breakdown by the time she finished.
Perhaps
Indeed, the elegant Eva holda the key of the entire Perón ̈sta, position. And this is the triple lock she guards...
FIRST. her £100
almost
Miss Hennock wants a Third Programme
—FOR THE U.S.A.
from FREDERICK COOK
NEW YORK. MERICAN Frieda Hennock thinks so highly of Britain's Third Programme that she has thrown up a £18,000-a-year career and taken a £5,000 Govern- ment job to campaign for a similar programme. America,
Miss Hennock, brown- oyed blonde, has dedicated herself as a member of the Federal Communications Commission to the propos tion that at least a quarter of the United States' 1850 television stations should be 3et unide for something other than commercialised cowboys and beer-plugging comedians. She is finding the going heavy. Her col- leagues-there are seven Commissioners and she is! the only woman-have not exactly turned her down. But they have indicated that 10 percent of the stations is sufficient for
in
17.MILÁ HENNOOK "There just isn't time for used to play golf and go any entertaining," she says. non-commercial use, remot
To gain her point, Frieda fan't time these days."
riding. I loved it but there Hennock (who "simply has never had time to get house ("where I could raise She would like a country married" though she is now
every
What sort of TV pro- gramme would she like; if she could have her way?
46) is putting in a 14-hour some flowers as I used to day making at least one in New York"). But again, do with my indoor garden speech for her iden week, taking her lunch no time. (butter-milk and fruit) at her desk every day.
India Edwards, boss of the women's side of the De.
"Well, It would begin in the early morning with something mocratic Party who of interest, to farmers-new specialises in getting methods and so on. - Then visual women into jobs that only education for the housewife,
featuring such. men held before brought
things as
23 parent- her name to President Tru- economics: Programmer
child relationships and home
man's attention.
View of TV
D
Miss Hennock is as un- happy over American TV programmes as she is
go into the schools:: ilms, geography, experts in various fields who would reach thousands of children simultane- something quite impos- classrooms. in
at nary”
over REPL
could follow the
and know what the child
Perhaps
something herself
American radio. She says: was learning. "Ah, if only we had some poorest among them, to in-thing like your Third Pro troduce personally 40 Prizident and lavite to her home as guests.
he'd
Miss Henpock does not explain how Mother could be persuaded the gramme! You get the to switch off the · mannequin
in drama greatest
and parades and the love stories and switch on to Junior. In the She is more gracious to them music. I'd do almost any classroom. than to many of the most thing to have it over here." powerful mercantile and military
Worked Out Not that she is for figures in the Argentine.
But in the "Government control" over thinks there could
evening, she be, courbeg radio or TV. "I'd rather for working adults and cultural have it in private hands," programmes like ballet and
has a programme
TT
Her money
+
She
لله
o her orators have of Labour. and with Two million people beseeched If the cheer-led bellowing of done no worse on the eve of demoniac energy she has applied 2,000,000 throats can be said to the boil, especially the cond:- herself to the job. She earned
the title beseeching-General Juan date's wife.
she claimed:
TH This time, however, The Can- standard-bearer of the poor.", Peron to be President and Maria
didate's Wite
herself ย candidate, or rather she is going night, I have
Many a time, long after mid- IT is the army which may yet she says, "but I'm afraid opera.
Ibe Eva's undoing. Her that commercial radio, find- worked President.
woon the ligh a husband (he looks like a bluffing it financially un-years research and preparation..
the result of two ou to be after the gracious fe- burning in-her-office. And the British brigadier, with breezy profitable, ceptance of the call to duy was there again at 7 am. ncx?
will never of Insiders in Washington, think maner and tanned face) 13 beside her husband.
morning. And every morning, popular both with the generals
itself sponsor programmes they know why she willing to Eva had a third hold on the and the sergeants,
a minority, put so much toll into what many Argentine nation.
pay appealing to whose
call a fost cause auready. Says and prospects he has improved. And I'm afraid that unless one with a smile, "Frieda is very NUMBER THREE? The But the officers as a class do something is done now, TV ambitious, politically... She million women. Never before. have the for in the sad event of Peron's will go the game way. Once knows a-good white horse when
not fancy Eva as vice-president, "Eva Peron Foundation," he women had the vole in the
automatically the stations are assigned it for all it's worth: She has sire sees one,, and how, to ride State's
death the would only social
welfare Argentine. Eva helped to get it Instullen.
in 1948. Now 4,000,000 women mander-in-chief.
become president and com we'll never get them back" her eye on the FCC chairman- Alternately vobbing and Through the Foundation sha have a vote to use at the coming
In New York, when she ship." screaming, the pleaded for wo makes gif's of money, clothes, election.
So one day Eva, who has
Truman has already And vole they' mus!!
the days was a wealthy lawyer, she travelled far 'since hours more to make up her mind houses. And through her chaln
Its when she and her sister helped lived in rubsidised to accept or reject the vice- of
a Park Avenue nominated her for a New York compulsory to go to the poll, "proveeduría"
Federal Judgeship. Bome pres'dential nomination.
grocery clores she provides cul- even if you only enter a blank mother to keep a lodging-house, penthouse flat. Now she has lawyers opposts the appointment.
may travel further. "Comrades, comrades," she price food.
three-room place in The matter is still to be thrashed Teraugh
ja If she does she will still be "I'll give you my answer
her Peronista Femenina Party, Eva has made with
able to spend £15,000 on the radio à 9.30." But long
a year Washington which sees her out
Miss Hennock, meantime, is before that the pair's acceptance:
the only ival bid for them. At Fath, and Rochas, in Paris. Her the country on, speaking one
Masure. Dior. Balmain, when she is not stumping conte
her campaign, her every working-class was announced, and the next
feminine TAVERY
weakness(" business (especially sive
bank account in has attended with day was proclaimed a holiday,
the foreign ones), every in- husband (and there are few she and her brother's in New York tours or tied to her desk at taste for hats on the daffy side") dustry, and every Peronist trade misses), the picks out some of
the office long after most of and her one remaining..hobby:
taking crippled - chixiren to the- union Chere are no others) has the women, Invariably the ~~(London' Express Service) the rest have gone home.
circus on Solurday afternoon, It sounds silly, but nobody if they don't! *
sobbed,
Her tongue
Her methods
to subscribe. Woe betide them.
laughs but loud In the MU-MU, The great chrrelate i Argen Inc. If you did, it would firm, refused to give her 100,000 be "desacato," 1.e., contempt of packages to distribule as gifts the regime, and for that you can to the schoolchildren. Next day,
slight,
slip
A
function her
will cover that.
Switzerland
content
TRIBE OF 'OLYMPIC STARS
one
sure of at least Olympic record, I suggest
be summarily gooled. Eva the police and the health TF Britain wants to make herell is certainly no joke. This inspectors were at the works,
bright, brown-eyed condemning the whole plant. blonde ex-actress of 34 (it is
What happens sure desocato to say she is more than 30) with a sallow, waxen
money that pours Into
Peron power politici
in
an un-
10 all the the selectors should take a
the
By DUDLEY HAWKINS
"heshima" could be gained. The Masal are individualists, so that put football out of the question. it was the tall District Com- missioner, Leslie Pritchart, who ekin and fine features, brings to mightiest mass-bribery engine trip to Lolokitok, n small for the honour of their ditions, and running pumps, told me how the
answer had the history of polition is collection of mud and grass clans.
these Masai boya could been found. bounded vitality as well nobody's business.
"Athletics, For Eva huts in the heart of the And it was the warriors break the world's record think," he put, will s malice, and real ability. none.
keeps no necaunts, and renders high equatorial steppe-lands of Lolokitok who won the with ease.
problemt.This Ministers,
prisville third athletic meeting, we generolz,
of East Africa.
day, and who amazed the These men,
bedaubed have held, and it has attracted. and ambassadors she treats wi h equal authority or hostility, Winter Reilet were milking by Tammany Hall and Hitler's
fow Europeans who were with red ochre, wearing by far the most entries to date. they get in her way. And also hand compared
For there they breed men present with the way in their hair in * mud-
Instead of stealing a woman with the back-stage side of her machice.
with this who must be athletic to sur- which they threw a javelin. plastered bob, clad only in back to their village, they bow from another clan and taking her tongue.
vive, men of the Masai, Tho "elimination" dís. a dirty blanket -and neck take a fine fat sheep plus quite. Free rallway. steamer, bus, toughest race of warriors tance was 160 ft. and the laces of blue, red and white a lot of heshima." tube, taxi, and even acroplane in the Empire, who train on final throw was just under beads, are part of a great
Her
LAS
heart.
tates, Eren meals,-free 'football
B an actress, her critics are seats and free shelter are offered always pointing out, she to the visiting voters, who have made no great hit either, in the come to town as Eva's gucate. theatre or on the, alr.
matches free theatre and cinema a diet of blood and milk.
Well, she plays to a packed
bouto
all right now. Hoar her...
shrliiing
to a vast, excited
солсонто of half a million
Her 05
energy
180 ft. This is well short of experiment.
tribes "of East
From the time they can walk ́ I have just beon' to see a the Olymple record, but The Masal are the inst of the the Maral are taught to fight. Masai sports-meeting. It better by many feet than under the influence of the West. hops to do. They do not marry Africa to come As young men, that is all they' was a revelation of the hid the average efforts of the They have been lets to room until they are about 30 when den sporting talent which first-class javelin thrower lands brding they settle down to the business
· their cattle: ant fighting the of bringing up a family. we could recruit from the in Britain.
ever present menace of lions to An official who twa lived. In- courge there are several wildeat plains of East
Until the British came to East the Mask country for overal people, packed-in'e the Avenida ·· days of national holiday and Africa.
And the 100 yards-from spent the the death just coul
Africa that mbretches back: for miles the best Britain was to have
the young warriors years told me there's no doubt their time in tribal for#YENİ that. If These from the rolling, muddy River had from the Argentine are From hundreds of miles an almost lethargic start,
esa, hintai would 'orly” lin silow themselves to be treines Plate,
won't get because the electors tall, arrogant Masal war over rough tussocky grass fun and honour of they properly they would "I speak in the name of the apps The comes het son xlors had trekked across the against a blustering head have wendy o
for
world. of Eva's humble, the homelem to cry
grips on out, against the old, evil days its public comes from her close bushlands or bumped in wind and in bare feet the means For 100, have a heart aasrociation with the General lorries over rugged moun- time clocked was 10.2 sec, and gloryit to the native equiva- didn't even key: anti halaw Contrs Peronista timurti. And if I could. Confederation of Labour, the tain roads to Kallado. Here, And the runner was carry. lent of the old sche
someone might beat Him. AWE have my harts, desire, of all Argentine (and," course, on a crudely marked out ing his horse-hair fly whink. Bililih cukie put an end training that man, DEL BA things on dit hốt, curtly. I would Paronit, U.C
sports arena, the Mačaí rán, Given a stretch of closo something else had to jumped, and thret, Javeling, cropp
tävling your support, in holding to
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