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EVITA*
H
ISTORY will confirm would make men fail desper-
it: Evita has beaten ately in love. She was smart,
certainly. allslim, straw hat went well
Her simple pink them
with her peroxide-haired Eva Duarte, peroxided hair-originally dark. one-time dancer, daughter Her figure was trim
under of a Buenos Aires rooming
well cut blouse and skirt. house keeper, almighty con- sort of PresidentPeron.
She has triumphed over all other stars on the world's post- war stage of petticoat poten- tates.
Alone she is going to retain her Influence and her power.
Where is Anna Pauker, Ru manian
Communist, woman whose ruthless mouth and cruel eyes tell the story of her life
through time fight for power
Six prison, torture, intrigues? months ago she was still the undisputed ruler of Rumania, trusted confidante of Stalin. Today she is under arrest.
n
Large brown eyes shone from rather a waxy sallow face. Her mouth pouted. She had none of the glow and vital magnet- ism of the really beautiful woman.
POTENTATES
by
SEFTON DELMER
the
Woman: I was no better off than
I
you not long ago. Now I exist only to interpret Peron's great crumde to you-his people, am only hero to save his energy, to explain his ideals, to carry out his glorious programme. .......”
Evita on Peron (2)
BIG JOB
MAGNET
by
JOHN JUNOR
For whether the Empire may
THEN the Rev. George of the most important jobs a Reith, D.D., Minister an con hold. Even those who, of
do not believe in the Empire will tho College not attempt to underwrite its Church, Glasgow, looked significance.. down on his new-born son he must have felt sure, 88 or may not mean something La all fathers do, that the the British taxpayer, money Almighty had mapped out a certainly does. And in the 53 fine and glowing career for undertakings of the Colonial the infant child.
Development Corporation there are many millions of public But could he have visualised, money invested. the stern Presbyterian minister, : that the child who had beeri When Lord Reith was ap baptised John Charles Walsham Pointed £5,000-a-year chief of Reith would one day be the first these 63 undertakings two years Baron Reith of Stonehaven? ago, he and his admirera were And that in Who's Who it would sure, as usual, that he would take no fewer than 17 Unes to make a brilliant huecoss of his list his public posts,
new post,
Dazzling career
Dazzling Indeed has been the career of Lord Reith, the son of the Manse.
Throughout the years he has
And on this occasion. It seemed just possible that they might be right,
His sacrifice
Two points were in Lord:
fitted, like a gaunt crow, froin Reith's favour post to post and basked in the favour of Tory and Sociollat Governments alike.
Almost without a break since 1922 this dour figure has been engaged in public service,
Has he been success? Always, always when
when he takes
1.
The man
whom he was succeeding Lord Trèf- game-had been such a dismal failure that it would have been difficult even for Relth, in com- parlson, to have seemed more inefficient,
ona niw job he gives the im- pression of being about to do.2. grant things. He exudes a con fidence which is no unctuously righteous that it, seems heresy to question its soundness.
Seldom, seldom, alas, does his
Lord
It appeared that
Reith really had his heart
in his new job, that he was a-, sincere and passionate bellever In Imperial development.
How could it be otherwise
Branco match up to his when, as he took pains to mako
clear at the time; he was accept It was thus during the war ing the job at considerable years when, in rapid succession, sacrifice to himself? he become Minister of Informa tion, Minister of Transport, and Minister of Works,
He was a striking and splendid Agure in all. three jobs. A success in none.
'Magic' touch Yet even when he was sacked and joined the Navy there was still something magical abou! the man. He carried his lieut.- dignity and bearing of an Ad- commander's stripes with
miral of the Fleet.
"Peron is the air we breathe; A bevy of sleek young gigolos Not a penny she told me was Peron is our sun, Peron is life. or officials surrounded her, distributed without her going I want nothing zagerly awaiting her bidding. Into the details of each gift me heart of Parort: Because, though but to be the She treated them with a patron do so she worked unti the I do my best to understand him ising comradely indulgence. But early hours of the morning,
ing and learn his marvellous ways, there was nothing of the femme drinking in endlessly fatale about her. All I could idolatrous thinks of the mendl whenever he makes a decision, sce was just another of those cant. This
barely mumble. 'Whenever arrogation to her-
gives advice, I scarcely fanatical women politicians I've self of the right to control
Talth a suggestion, met so often among the Com- everything down to its smallest he speaks. I hardly utter a
mike munists and Fascists, determined details was typical of her whole single word... to domineer and impose them- work. selves and their cause.
CORRUPTION
caused immense confusion, Evita on Evita resulted in colossal. corruption scandals, and enriched, many of hor unworthiest hangers-on.
It is typical too of the chaotic
What about Mme. Chlang, the ambitious daughter of * Chinese millionaire? She mar- ried Д soldier, devoted her life to mak Ing her husband ruler of China tributing money, free furniture, the Peronist Argentine to its
young revolutionary Waaged in a theatrical bit hop, siaip, and jump type
in order... that she might rule. through him. The last time I saw her, Mme, Chlang's empire had shrunk to a small white house on the island of Formosa, the only remaining stronghold of her husband's followers. Not even her husband listens to her now,
IRONY...
QUT Evita (a name she chose
WHEN I met her she was on-
work, dig-
of social welfare
tree food to a group of needy -
on gathered on benches in
the theatre-ilko hall of her
Evita Peron Foundation."
Ori
Limelights were turned her as If it were a stage show; the money and gifts she dis tributed as though they wore a personal gift from herself.
of
Administration that has brought
dare Whenever
From Evlia's "autobiography: "I said that I am not moved by any
And personal ambition. maybe this is
is not entirely true. Yes, I confess I have an ambl- ambition. I would like the name on, one sole and great personal of Evita to appear some day in the history of my country. I would like it to say of Evita, cven If it would not be-more Her public appearances in the wonderful chapter which footnote at the end staged to give Juan [Perou, of the the benevolent, a divine status. history will dedicate to Peron, Her speeches always begin with
present economic distress, Evita on Peron (1)
the
The admirers of Lord Reith and he has many besides him self-have never faltered in their
They
dismiss each of his
But today? Today it is clear
that Lord Rath was not alohe in making meridees. That in appointing him the British Em pire has made some too.
Observe Lord Reith's Colonial career to date. In his first year of office the losses incurred by his predecessor in the previous They jumped from £1,320,000 than doubled, to 22,900,000
year wore maro
L
Not to blame
Was Lord Reith 'to blame? Certainly not. He produced a report in which he frankly and honestly admitted all the errors mistakes his predecessor
and had made.
He did not mention Lord failures as being due to bad luck. Trofgarno by name. But, dis- As proof of his inherent bril- creetly, he conveyed the impres lance, they point with pride to sion that he viewed his pro- the magnificent success he had decessor's doings with the same. when he was pre-war boss of sort of austere distaste as might the B.B.C.
have been
con produced in his father Lord Reith ran that organisa- the minister by the sight of an tion as if it were Lord's Day elder alooping through a sermon, Observanco Society. He did not He amounced that he wutus"
mess. Ho
care
the
overmuch what sort of "Todds under the .now
-of-
--Lorri
Reith
He knew the sort of programme manage programmes the public wanted. hinted Lord Reith thought they should things would soon be
much better. Very much better, He was rigid. He was un- What also has · Lord Reith relenting. Yet throughout it all achieved in the last two years, ho secured for himself public.
apart from the production of esteem in immense measure.
promises? But it is not the jobs which
a lowering of the eyes, a coften- approximately like Lord Relth has held in the past on the future of broadcasting."
Ing of the voice, a hushed refer In fact the money came from ence to Feron as the "god of the non-Peronist charities which people's interest.” * she had ordered to close down,
collected
wealthy
Or
from
the Lords and write in the Press
He has found time to talk in "*
this: "There was, by the side of
which should now concern the Peron, a woman who dedicated
He has announced, commend. herec to take to the President occupies at the moment-the ment Corporation will be run in
nation,
It is the office he ably, that the Colonial Develop the hopes of the people, which chairmanship of the Colonial future on Peron would
change Development Corporation. Lines,
Belt Prom, by dying, people afraid of incurring the begins quichly
With num-like humility, she into realities Promply
"I am only a
-(London Exprent Service)
has avoided the fall from power wrath of the Peronist machine. simple, meaningless iittle
·which undoubtedly would have come her way as well. Instead, an I see it, she is going to become even more influential after her death than ever she was in life, The erano propaganda machine. of the Peron Party will now be put into top gear to cononise her as the self-sacrlacing märtyr who gave her life for the Argentine's under-privileged and oppressed.
Saving Is Big New Craze
has
The ironle thing is that the illness from which Evita Peron last year from public humiliation. For Evita, not content with
died only just saved her
Washington. morrow they spend lavishly on MERICANS are saving the "cat, drink, and be merry" Asaving hard.
principle. They are saving be cause they have confidence in New York City, one of a serene and peaceful future. the greatest aggregations of wealth in the world, ie put- PAPER dollars are known
famous
one of a number of ladies: "The plural of spouse appears to be,spice."
THE "commeg theatro"--pain- ly in rustic barns is a great institution when the hot "greenbacks" in America, weather hits Broadway.
ting more and more money and counsel for Marin Olsen,
DA
away in savings accounts Brooklyn bank teller who "went opt to get ravaged by Alles It the reality of her influence as and bank deposit boxes all to lurich" taking 30,000 dollars he: husband's constant advise the time.
and No. 1 I public propagandist, wanted
In the first six months of AMERICAN ba elected as his vice- prosident in the November elec- this year the city's bank de-.
to
lone. jibbed The ormy, however, posits showed a gain of at the possibility of £103 million, compared with having to accept a woman, and £6,400,000 for the first half an ex-dancer at that, as their of 1961. commander-in-chief
They threatened revolt. A mino revolt actually did take Peron "rushed Evita off place.
to hospital amid public disavowal of her intentions to stand for the vice-presidency.
HER SECRET
WH
[/HAT ́ ́was the
secret
COLUMN. FROM R.M.
MACCOLL
But because the audience la
is becoming familiarly known
:
as "The Citronella
Circuit." People spray themselves with lemon juice to try to keep the files away.
HEADLINE: "Bulky pelt and
muge belt intact, Farouk says he's coming here.” Pelf e wealth...
of money
DOWN in West Palm Beach,
innir canctum (£13,500) with him, pleads to How can people do it, with the judge: "Hitherto Olsen had and high society, there is great today? prices and taxes, as they are
regarded greenbacks as nothing activity among the estate agents. One way appears to be that more than so many green vege Reason: They are all hoping to they have largely stopped buy- tables. But suddenly he thought sell a mansion to Farouk.
of all the good things those ARNING that the tears Ing household appliances, fumi vegetables would buy and he ture, radio, and TV sets for the took the money." time being. As 000 expert
!
W situation in Persia may
puts it: "How many refrigern- The court, unimpremed, sen- require armed American Inter
DRINK called the "Adlai
Perela
vention to thwart a Communist of tors can a family use? How tenged Olsen to 30 months. Evita's power?
seizure of power the columnists Sex ap many cars can you drive at one: peal?
Stewart Glamour? She must time?
and Joseph
- Απορ ADL class, as white belleved in Washington have had her 'share. That 151 But, as usual, the experts. -OTO made plain by the long list of divided into two schools of pearance in Washington cock- that a Communist takeover in radio producers and officers who thought over the
Lall-bara. underlying. courted, her before she
· must be avoided : at mot reason for the thrift..
whilover cool, even the cost of Colonel Juan Peron, then an Ово group says
ND the divorced Adlain Broale with Britain on Middie ambitious young officer on the building up nest eggs because fringe of politics...
they mazo - jittery: shout "the choice for the presidency, has is a measure of the danger to But when I called on her in future and what it may hold. caused miles by his remark, the Western alliance of the the autumn of 1942. I could No, my the others--it people wheh tackled by nowen on crisis now reaching the boiling. sense nothing about her that think there will be war to-- whether he is about to marry point in Persia."
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