GIRL WITH
NO ARMS
SITS EXAM
By Gareth Bowen'
Wales.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1959.
BEAUTY OR BRAINS?'
A Dictator Was Her Puppet
EVA
PERON rose from the slums to become the most powerful woman the twentieth century has seen.
But it was not until after her death that the world realised the full extent of her power; that she, not her husband, had been the true ruler of the Argentine.
Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, the illegitimate waif from the slums of Los Toldos, had created a dictator whose reign could not long survive her
JANE PREECE, born without arms, smiled early death.
proudly and said: "I'll write the answers with my feet, of course!"
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Jane, aged 11, of Plas Said Mrs Preece: "Every Road, Rhos — a village high time I thought of Jane 1 on the slopes of the Swan- burst into tears.. But I'll Valley in Wales - never forget what my looked up at her mother and husband said: "We must listed what she can do with pray, my love. Maybe she ten talented toes:
will be given the strength to overcome this,'
"I can thread a needle, sew tapestry, knit jumpers, brush the floor, and draw
and paint.
"Imok, let me show you a trick," added Jane, "Just watch me pick up twelve pennies one after the other with my feet.
And up they cume.
"We prayed together night after night, and then, quite suddenly, the miracle happened.
"And ever since, Jane has smiled. and laughed, and jokezi. She has beard un- kind words other children can be very cruel but she has never flinched."
Said Me Preece: "My has guts."
-BY
Rex Lopez
gramme, she set out to
Bo, wing her radio pro
make Peron's name a household word.
Ste meniloned his name nearly that he was their champion is
every day. She told her Isteners
the government. She told them that he preferred the company of the descamisados (shirtiess ches) to that of the frock-coated government officials.
What set Eva Peron apart Even then her sights were from giler women? The answer trained high. Of the women. In la her burning lust for
Raying come from the poor, power elstory" who had reached, the Eva know how to use them. descamisados, wete win it detention to top, she chose as her malet "the They, he
matter how. na
She Empress Theadora, the seiress going to achleve ker ambition chuse Juan Peren as a means of courtesan who married
Ajor her. getting to the top. If It had not Byzantine emperor. It was na-
When an earthquake destroy- therefore, that cd the city of San Juan, killing been Peron, the would have tural enough, found someone else.
Eva began her climb as a small 8,000 rx injuring 50,000, Eva 152110 actress, nightclub singer persuaded Peron to rush to the and model.
scene. She ongarilsed a fund for was Peren who handed out the the people of San Juan. But money to the survivors.
Eva stands out from history's other women of destiny, for she used brains while appearing to use beauty. In fact, Eva was not a beautiful woman. Looked at objectively, she was not even particularly attractive.
An Illusion
"But what Eva did have.
was quite astounding ability to
illusion of grent create the beauty.
She used every means to en- Kirihance her pale-skinned. dark
eyed looks. In a country of dark-haired women she knew the dramatic effect of a blonde Her and so dyed her hair.
Site told me
about her relubber*... the surgical carnet and articlal arms Atted to her
It was a terrible day for lorry driver Victor Preece body by experts at Roehampton, pending on clothes, jewels and
and his wife when they were told Jane was born armless.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
MIERE never was a rivalry bridge like that between the late Hal Sima and the late Ely Culbertson. In today's hand called "The Professor," as Hul
defeat Ely, managed to
"The Maestro," as Ely called 11, at one of Hal's favourite three no- trumu contracts.
Ely opened the seven of clubs and dummy's ten won the trick. Ifal started after the diamond suit and Ely went into a huddie before making his first discard.
What's your problem, Profes- sor?" asked Hat.
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"I am trying to figure ou1 hand of yours that can beat," replied Ely. "And I think 1 have."
Ely proceeded to discard the deuce of spades and six and three of hearts as Hal ran out the diamond sult. Hal's next
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"I can do much better with my feet, but they tell me school I must learn to do much as possible with my arms, I've got a special epson to eat with, and a 'plonker' to work
my typewriter.
"I suppose I could type niy schnol examination papers, but
cosmetics was fabulous.
When she left home at 16 to fortune In Duenas Aires, her most treasure:
seek her
possession was Gn imitation pearl necklace.
of
When she died at 33 she left £2 million worth of jewels, 403 dresses, 600 hats, 200 pairs shoes and a fabulous collection of fur coats.
Eva proved that for the wo- man on the way to the top, the most effective weapon is brains. With one vital provision. She must never case being woman
Yet there
But while Theodora
had
stepped into a ready-made king dom, Eva bullt her own emplen brick by brick. Hers was a self- made Cinderella story. A Cin-
derella who created her own Prince.
her Is
That Peron could never have set up his dictatorship without historien fact. He had ambition but he lacked the chrewdness to see how he might reach the top and stay, there,
While Eva ved it was easy for Peron to act like an iron- fisted ruler, When she died became embarrassingly obvious that she had ruled from behind the reencu.
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Eva had in marked measure incher attribule of the meat. Complete faith in herself, even when the object of her ambition must have seemed as remotens the moon.
Perfect Match
She W033 J radio gossip colunist of no great note when the chose Juan Peron as her than of destiny in 1915. At that time he was an Under-Secretary
at the War Ministry, an un- distinguished post in one of the ernment departments. Argentine's innumerable i gor-
First Time
храцав
Peron was the dictator, but Eva was the real power in Argentina.
had done suelt
This was the Arst there anyone And athlag. Eva made sure the country knew it. Peron was the champion of ahe poor. Hadn't he proved it by his gallant and during tight to the people of San Juant
About this time Peron married thin air, while Eva's "invest Eva
home and abroad colleagues had begun
secretly Meantime, his entst
Increased. realise that Peron was
She used to spend more than becoming a
£20,000 a year on clothes In danger to them. They arrested
Parks. him and exiled him to an island
Yet, when she visited poverty-stricken the camisas cid in an ermite- they saw nothing ned coat, strange in it,
near Buenos Ales. But they realised too late that they had acted against the wrong Beron, For Eva, using her radio oro- gramme, brought out the mob. More than 60,000 descamisados crowded into the Pinza de Mayo, Buenos Aires' main square, de- manding Peron's release.
Iron was set free, the near- martyr of the poor, saved by the love of his wantan,
And In March 1916, he was elected President by a landslide vote, Thus Eva became one of the inos! powerful women In history.
I can write as fast with my feetly. She must never be autres
Eva in power was a fascinat- Ing woman to watch. She had as others can with their hands.sively brainy,
Peron, tall, bread-shouldered, little of what is called sex ap was much about' Eva that was truly #
For instance it is impossible to him for the role, was the perfect on the mob, and binded their womanly. locking as if Hollywood had cast Beol. But she used her charmi
be completely
about match for the 25-year-old Eva eyes to their
poverty. her age becouse-with a typical with the velvet voice. by feminine
And with Peron at her side, mother." Kesture-she used
she began to carve out their her power to have til the cords of her life altered to suit path to the presidency. her own tidier version.
"I've just won painting competition with a big clucolate Am The Judges said they were amazed when they heard I'd done it all with my feet."
Jane hus just started to learn the plan with the aid of two special appliances on arms.
her
"And when I grow up?" says Jaue, "I want to be a surgeon's secretary. I've seen luts of them at Reschampion, such good work."
accurate
re-
The first thing Eva did was to take an apartment next door to Peron's In a fashionable blockt
own squalor and She was their "little
She set up
the Social Ald Foundation, charitable or ganisation, which at the helpit of its success was netting £33 millen a year.
It is known that she was one of the five illegitimate children Jet an Argentinian labourer, that in the centre of Buenos Aires. Some of the money was spent
she was born about 1919, and
genuine Eva was well aware that, in a on
welfare work, was 16 she tore country with that when she
Do per
hospitals, ent orphanages,
cllates and they do free of the squalor of Los Merary, radio propaganda was ond schools But a Jurge
Toldos,
kmensely valuable.
proportion disappeared as it into
London's old enemy
THE
of
Tather is onsten Peter BURGOYNE'S.
headline-makers in Britain.
Though I often wonder why the British should continue
to be amazed by a climate
calculated to make a cynic
News From Britain
spearheaded by certain Socialist M.Ps, in being made on the way television advertising handled.
The critics
is being
charge that the official watchdog of commercial telovision, tho Independent Television Authority, is not bu of any saint, their interest ce your hand in front of your Liberals would not intervene in ing nearly watchful enough. The face. And because fog plays general election to anything result, they say, is that adverus- in their weather remains tricks with sounds, you can lose like the extent expected when ing is being allowed to intrude nothing short of morbid. all sense of direction. In such a they began Their come-back, inio programmes in a way that Recently it was the old enemy, tog you can become terrifyingly But in a by-election at Southend would never have been agreed fag, which pushed Khrushchev lost within a few yards of your this week the Liberals maneged to when Parliament voted to
to snatch and cricket off the nation's front home.
pages. It was the worst, gloated So next time you read of tog, Conservative and Socialist sup the headlines, since the Great in Britain, remember the touch, Smog of 1932 which look nearly the taste of it and the frighten- 4,000 lives.
ing blindness and spare a prayer for us benighted souls.
It crept over the capital, turning this elty of eight million
odd sculs into a place of the The Big Question
blind, crippling transport And shutting people up in their
they lo dummy's homes when
were ILL. Britain's next govern-
large slices of both permit commercial television. port. And this, It is being sold, will hearten them to increase the number of their candidates at the fchroming general election and, therefore, split votes more constituencies.
Changing Times
with their my more
date-devin
Their principal corint is that the programme-makes are not abiding by the rule Hat advertising oplels should be tied only during "natural;
in
programmes. Natal breaks," they ecmplain, are being deliberately ecntrived.
ITA. The head men of the nce and Ely's king fell. Now fortunate enough to reach them.ment be Sedalist? If you
now reunded on their bove Hal threw Ely in with a club Its cost in terms of health and follow the pollsters,
attackers and told them they are, 1 moments as a schoolboy
the and Ely took his four club money has yet to be counted graphs of political popularity would cinh together with
interpreting too narrowly tricks. Ely's next play was the Since fog is the foulest of the the possibility
* function of the Authority. nt A Socialist
classinate and buy Dvo seven of spades and flie three manzi climatic abominations government, you till see, is
day
All passion is not yet spent on no-trump contract was doomed tuffered by this island race, I nothing like a remote as it cigarettes2d In those
Even though ไอ indulgenen the subject. Sa watch for a large 10 defeat.
shall try to give you some iden seemed a few short weeks ago..
very occasional, wè grate sow was very,
over Britain's first of what a real "pen-souper" is The latest survey shown the were regarded by our more venture Into ecmmercial broad- Ely had netually constructed like.
Socialists edging ahead of the
ashoolfellows as virtuous
dc- casting, Hal's whole hond and worked
Conservatives To start with it doesn't swirl the
prayed ittle monsters. out the only defence lo beat dramatically, as the makers of popularity stakes.
we were caught Self-Hypnosis Whiteni hlm. One club discard would horror films sceta to believe, Personally, I still believe that inevitably we were we were have been fatal und at the end. The real London variety lies the Conservatives will win the Ely had to lead his low spade, terrifyingly Inert upon its coming General Election which forgotten. not the queen or the Jock | else | victim. Hal would have made three spode tricks.
th:0
Kives
cheap
hidings I still haven't
PIECE of medical history
In almost certain to be held this This excursion into novialgia A WAN mado Jti Britain To the touch it is icily wet, a year. For while I have no If a steam bath had been rigged quarrel with the pisters, I am is stoned by a report that recently
when Mr Pamela
up in a refrigerating plant." convinced that the vital font in Edinburgh, that fortress of transden gave birth to sa. Bih To get some idea of the taste fagt voters' will, in the event, presbyterian rectitude, the cor- boy. For Mrs Brausden became |V+CARD Senseof for you should st
Britain to
night in an ill-ventilated rail- power. was carriage which has stuck Those "Healing voters'
Q-The bidding has been: South West North Fart
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What do you do?
A-Bid three hearts. You have good support for hearts but your opening bid is a mloknya.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bkiding in the same as in the question just answered. You, Bouth, hold:
414 PK310 SARE SAJ414
What do you do?„
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In poration is to cought a survey the first mother in up all preserve the Conservatives into the amokg habita" of give birth while in a self-
ech ***Jdron This is part of a Induced hypnotio trance. the w
vic anti-smoking in a turmel, and chain-smoko in the main, not found nenda
When it was all over, Mra cheap cigarettes. At about 7 the groups likely to be affecting. What astounds me is that the Brunsden said: “I had a bad time! a.m. rail ymur tender and by unemployment, which is the swollen tongue around
your main obstacle to a Conservative corporation lo merely going to with my three other children, one, although the ...moutly Note that
I bellove, investigate the smoking habits of but this furry, victory. Therefore, sulphurous bouquet? Now they will choose the compara- their young charges instead of heaviest of all of them, was no
them in trouble at all. descending upon you're beginning to know what tive prosperity offered by the
and smiling London for tastes like.
Conservatives, rather than the righteous wrath
O tempera!. O mores!
But the most terrifying thing controls and stifling egalitarian- then hip and thigh. about fog the blindness it can im of the Socialiste bring to a great elty in only a The Conservativg majority.
tow minutes. In real "peu- however, may be whittled down TV Row
souper", your can stretch
| armi alicha of you and
Uin
the interveniles of your by barely Liberals. The Liberal zonaĀNSON CO discern your fingers. That's of a year ago evemed to yo what, the Bellish
when dimmed of late and the pundita.
been dying iba they talk about belig unable tɔ have
the mercias,
meph
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is brewing condget of Kiritain's television.
An
"Just put myself in hypnolle alate, tuld ingwelt X could feel no poln, and that was that. I ever felt any pain."
¿Three months
Mre Bransden accepted a free Course over the in
frogn tho self-byprzele „Gate, president of the British Society attack, of Hypno-Therapists.
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Women's Vote
des-
She was beyond questioning, One forelim visitor who did ask Eva how she disposed of the Foundation's vast revenue was told: "The money is for the poor. I'm too busy giving it away to stop to count it."
Eva knew, too, the strength of her handsome husband's appeal to women. So she got women their vote for the first time in 1951. And she persuaded them to elect Puron Into a second term of office.
During the election campelim, she would oland on the' balcony
of the Palace facing the Plaza no eagle who flite high and sure de Mayo, microphen in hand, and the peaks and near to blaring at the vast crowd about God." Peren's achievements.
But when Eva the Sparrow wan gone, Juan the Engia crumpled and crashed.
When the and was near, Peron, knelt by her bedside, robbing: "Don't leave me, Evila, don't leave me.”
Then for the benefit of women in her audience, she would plant a ciss on his lips "That che is from all of you," the would say, Bat behind the scenes Eva was ruthless in her use of power, On her word men were thrown in gaol,
Sho tortured, shot. decided governmental nppalat- ments, issued orders and passed decrees, Peron's job was to sign
them.
A government secretary who tried to alter one of her invita-
Doomed
It was the heartfelt ery of the eagle who must have known that without his guiding sparrow he
was doomed,
was 100
Five was dead. But she had Decomplished all she set out to tion lists was told by her: "One de. The only ironical twist in hier word from ine and you're a ambitieus etreer had come when corpse-you Bitle scarecrow."
vioc- ler animation for tha Throughout all this Eva nover presidency, WID rejected UTA dropped her cet of humility.
sho the grounds that She once said when she was young. at the height of her power":
When she and the records mado humble forced, she had herself "I am nothing bur a woman A single
younger than sho sparrow three years among, Denniense number of really was. sparroth "He -- Perun-is like It was her one mistake.
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