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"I wish I was at that Commons debate this week-l'd tell 'em what they could do with their 'olidays abroad,"
I've
C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS
THE AMERICAN SCENE
THE MUTE ADORER
A
NEW YORK.
MAN who has never said a word was. sued in Atlanta, Georgia, for £12,000- for "talking" too much,
Glenson Grizzard is a deaf mute, but that did not deter him from pressing his suit with the ardour of a Don Juan.
The object of his attentions, Miss Leile, Campos, is also a deaf mute. But that did not deter her from pressing her suit for what America calls "£12,000 heart balm,"
In her sult Miss Campos said that Mr Grizzard began to whisper sweet nothings— in sign language-as soon as they met. But before long his language became more emphatic.
Samples of what he said, still in sign language: "Unless I can have you, my life will be one unending plain, barren and bereft of every and any pleasure."
Captivated Mirs Campos, “ virtuous, anmartled deaf mute," as she described herself, agreed to marry him.
never seen people so eager
to be shackled
BUENOS AIRES,
For ycura past, Argentina
Mar. 17. has been a political madhouse, THIS dismal city-the but until Peron it was at least
only one in the world, rich.
squandered its patri-
I should say, that can If it contrive to be hysterical and mony on the masses, unneccs- morose, furtive and arrosary, ostentatious imports, and gant, wealthy and bankrupt arms
reinforce all at the same time-is now national pride, 11 was someone producing its most elaborate else's affuir. paradox.
it
Kear
to
But how can you impoverish
country with 12 feet of sold
Cheering and applauding, country of such un acclaiming and triumphant, mited uricultural wealth
capers enthusiastically alluvial topsoil where no fer- into the final condition of tiliser is ever used or needed. political servitude.
From noon yesterday to Reginald midnight tonight not
En stroke of work is being done GARDINER
throughout all Argentina in honour of the great day and the new order.
جاجة المالية .
wandering shelves
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INDRID
CHARLES
BERGMAN-BOYER
CES
LAUGHTON CALREAN
In Buenos Aires, multi- tudes of well-fed desea. misados gather gaily in the Plaza Congreso to watch President Peron take the outh under the new Con- stitution,
This is designed to per- petuate his rule, to outlaw nil opposition, and to aban- don at last the lip-service to Liberalism that has lasted for 96 years.
Political novelette
-but Peron and the fabulous Eva know gaiety hides a bankrupt State
by JAMES CAMERON
--who has flown to South America to strip away the glamour and examine the conduct of a nation which has endangered Britain's tenpenny moat ration. First report below:
tons short of her com→ under the Andes and is certain to
where cattle roam over endless 70,000 prairies without shelter or need of, fattening on alfalfa all the milments your round, a country the size Agreement of Europe supporting a popula- default tion less than twice the size or London?
Economic hole
How would you ruin such a.
place? Well, Peron and his Government have nearly man aged it.
Nobody knows
the precise depth of the economic hole Argentina is in.
General
Why? one wonders. There has been, it is true, a good deal of ilggery-pokery in selling the meat ordered by us to other European countries. been a lot of short-weight killing. But mainly there has been a lot of personal over-eating right here on the spot.
Then, she charged, Mr Grizzard roared with laughter and made jokes about her-In sign language-to their dent mule friends. And now he and Ittle while sluce Argentina was his friends laugh at her in stirring with rumours of a mill-public, sho says. tury ultimatum to get rid of
Evil.
And when inst weels General TALLULAH BANKHEAD is
ag
claiming £250,000 damages Sosa Molina, the army's lender, because nradlo advertisement mode a speech of fulsome loyalty refers to a hair shampoo to Peron, and Eva too, the "Tallulah the Tube" and advises cynical reaction was only to listeners to, "take me home and wonder what sort of a deal bad squeezɑ me." been made and by whom.
Beware!
FOR ALL the depression talk,
spring lambs this year are going to cost more than ever. In Chicago the other day they THIS is a strange and troubling went for £7 Gs. a cwt., a city to live in just now. How record price. And the prico prosperous it looks, sprawling has been going up more than beside Its enormous cocoa in. o cwt. every day. Пeason coloured Rio da la Plata.
losses in the snow belt.
But the stranger must beware.
AFTER WEEKS of, house- The new Constitution the hunting, Madame biggest event yet in the history Kai-shek is now trying to buy Chiang of Argentina-sets out to make the Virginia estate owned by.
They have all, but they have permanent a system that bans Lady Astor's family. bought it very dear.
unwelcome papers, that impri- sons indiscreet speakers, that
But what else in this unin- formed and ill-traditioned coun- try did they have to choose? What now opposes Peron his chic and shrewd Eva?
Not, surely, the local arbatos, the enormous estancieros-with
Now WCTS
causes automatic censorship of SO MANY politicians' phones BBC relays by Senora Peron's are being tapped In New own radio station quaintly called York that one
his thus: Hello everybody." "Libertad." and
Yet the stranger must sco
BUSINESS: Gene that Juan Domingo Peron, the SHOW thick-cared army colonel, There has
took Kelly may give up dancing. office not by force but by popu-and acting for A director's lar acclaim in one of. We first | Job. 1. There is a collle fairly straight elections Argen- nomed
Laddle ready to take tina ever had; that Senora Maria over when Lassie makes her Eva Duarte de Peron, the honey fin
final bow-wow is loved by the multitudes, and a
a star again
after 15 years, that this same Constitution is Gloria Swanson is attracting approved by the majority. bigger Hollywood crowds than
Pollites are mostly Bedlam, as any of the
youngsters. Not the army, always the big after all these years I am begin- Studio officials have been political force in Latin-Ameri- ning
feel, but-Southwarned always to call her Miss caat least not yet. It is only a America, take it away,
Davis, never Bette,
The Argentinos are the most fabulous and gargantuan meat- enters in the world-something over a pound per day for every man, woman and child in the
Peron has aten dency in his splendid oratorical Republic. tours de force of using what- But this, naturally, is only ever statistics seem artistically half the story. Much of the fault twin arguments (A) the U.S. is most effective propounding the must bo Miranda's-Miguel Miranda, the big timplate boss a villain because it will not buy
whom Peron made economic adviser,
-Argentine meat, and (B) Britain is venal because it does.
ex-
a
and then fired not o moment too soon.
War error
IRANDA made a colossal | and not unfamiliar Argen-
The rough position seems to be, however, that Argentina. NEVER since the brave days which has done a nice job of
commercial of Nuremberg have so many international
ploitation
а over. people made such an eager fuss years, is now on the rocks to M
period of about putting on the shackca, tune of some 400 million dollars Only the Opposition, which withdrew from the Assembly a owing to the United States. I the error: he put his money on is offset by a blocked credit in another world war to, arrive week ago, stays out of the lag Britain of £60 million. Its shortly and do Argentina a bit of [waving and outh-swearing.
this British debt which is good, as most wars in the past Peron, one would assume, e causing so much eye-Rashing have done.
double-talk here here to stay he and his good and
today. lady, the fabulous Eva, Govern- with the perpetual demand all ment Glad-Hand Girl No. 1 of the time: convertibility, con the extravagant political nova vertibility. lette that is Argentina.
Argentina
wants dollars, It is hardly right so far to wants Britain's debt expunged call Peron a Faselst boss, since in dollars (of which there is not he has built his regime on a the slightest, slenderesi chance,, technically democratic constitu- and knows at heart that nobody tional basix. Ils programmo but the U. S. A can help her of social reform looks pretty out. enlightened on paper.
an
A slender hope; Peron On
has already this basis, Peron
stood up
official creeted all the gaudy, sily lean by saying he would sooner trappings of dictatorship, ati cut his throat than take it, and the oppression and deceit, all no U. S. business organisation the hokum and eyewash, all ine is likely to take the risk. intolerance and espionage of totalitarianism.
So he haggled, tripped up and went, leaving Argentina in a chaotic economic mess.
Argentina's answer would be to do the same as Britain did; retrench, reform.
It is doubtful whether the
theft 100,000-acre ranches and their European education-who governed the land so arrogantly and selfishly before.
They hate Eva only because she is an upstart radio singer, not because she is politically smarter than they.
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CAT KING PACKS UP
‘SAD ABOUT
THE SIAMESE
animals as the
By CHAPMAN PINCKER
than for classy
It was still enough of a curio- sity in the 15th century for one specimen - "Dick Whitting- ton's" to become a country- wide legend.
Mr Yentes is on safer ground when he condemns the rebel broeders who are developing poke-faced ents-dog-like crea- tures with pushed-in noses and.. watery eyes. COM-
out on the
which
new recre....
THE King of the Cats is going rather
to abdicate. He is Mr Cecil panlokship, pedigree does not
Apart from the Manx mon- Yentes, 74-year-old Londoner matter.
strosity, the cat has suffered. and Sandhurst contemporary of
But Mr Yeates still counts i nt breeders' hands. Winston Churchill, who turned
as going
Only 20 varieties are recog- in a military commission to be- himself
For ki nised by the Cat Fancy Council. came Britain's No. 1 cat con- crest of a cat wave.
But these are suficient to cause. tens from noisseur.
catteries recognised are selling before they are born, continual bickering between the
breed separate
clubs The Governing Council of the Argentinos have the tempera-
Ilis one regret is that the make up the women-dominated ment, or in the present uncon- Cat Fancy, which he has "ruled" querably glorious mood, the for two years, can claim mortal once-favourite tabby, first ousted. Cut Fancy.
Mr Yeates's parling gesture is. has ability do such a thing.
authority over twice as many by the pampered Persian, then
famed Kennel swamped by the the Siamese, nimed at stopping this friction. For the moment, it is fair to Club.
He has appointed A sample cat census puts shows no signs of comeback.
tory, whose knowledge of cals. say, the descamisados-the unce the population above 0,000,nao,
ones" so deur to the comtinred with fewer "shirtless
"It is a shame that the cult extends no further than friend- Peron family-never had it so 3,000,000 dogs.
of exotic breeds has put the ship with a 12-your-old non- real good. Only the most politically
English tabby-the most descript tom. astute community of workers Bui the Kennel Club's in- beautiful cat in the world-out could have resisted Peron's flucnos is for stronger. For of fashion," he says. offers,
whereus a registered breed--the cocker spaniel--has overtaken Exotic-breed enthusiasts point
POSTSCRIPT: They have got their Tis that unending dollars
char- the mongrel as Britain's most out that the tabby is just as
The Yentes: argument which obsesses ter-13 months pay a year popular dog. all the pedigree much foreigner as the Per- Kensington (W.D) cattery- QUEEN'S THEATRE – To-night at 9.30 p.m. to polities. Automatically, and the Anglo-Argentine economie huge indemnities for dismissal, cats
put together are over Blan.or Slamese,
once itself graced by such Blue Persian wage boosts up to 200 percent, whelmed in, numbers by unclas- .
champions DS Son. talks which have been going on here since February 22, and with milkmen now earning up sified alley-cats.
Scientific evidence shows that, O'Flick, who fathered 800 kit- which look as though they will to £65 a month.. a lovely
it is ocrtainly not directly tens-is now no more than go on, for years.
blonde running the Department This is no fault of the cat descended from Britain's wild rest home. The last few cats of of Labour and Welfare and ready breeders. The fact is that to cat, and probably came from the famous Yeates strains are to address them dramatically on most folk who keep a cat for Egypt by way of Italy In quietly living out their days, high days and holidays.
its happy-home symbolism medieval times.
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One gesture new £ shali always associale with Buenos Aires. Sitting in
friend's office one's talk moves round
with a reflex long accepted, he unplugs the telephone.
That, of course, is old stuff now. Peron has had a couple of years of strong-arm admini stration.
NANCY
Half Right
IF YOU WANT TO GET [THIN, WHY NOT ASK
THAT MAN WHAT HE EATS
Moat talks
The meat talks tire frankly in a mess, Argentina is now
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