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RUSSIA

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ON SUEZ-

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"As a gesture to our glorious allias would your Majesty like to inspect the valiant workers in the factories instead of the casinos?"

London Express Servica

The Fascinating Destiny of Eva Peron

THE MOST POWERFUL

-Senora Eva Peron addierslag «

election meeting

behalf of her husband.

120301

Poised at the apex of her dazzling career stands Senora Peron, wife of the dictator of the Argentine. Here is the first part of a three-day candid history of a woman who has beauty, brains and boundless ambition.

By COLIN FRAME

.

An amusing delight on all a few days THEN,

arises from the Senora's ago, Senora Maria this

typical feminism the Evita (Eva) Duarte

louchy about her age. "She is de Peron announced 27 to

her enemies; 24 to her that she would not. after friends" the Argentines sald all, stand for the vice- when presidency of the Argentine White House. Republic, she did it with all

she first went to their

WOMAN in

the WORLD

rentinuca to hold it, she is a first "shirtless ones" she over muss ef delightfully feminine knew. All wore a pencho - a .ensleadictions,

blanket with a hole in it through which went the head-but only

A brain the better off wore

beneath the blanket.

The poorer

were "Los Des-

comisados"the slang praitic term upon which twenty years later she was to seize to coin a triumphant political battle-cry,

Other worlds

"HOLY BOYS" ON THEIR WAY TO KOREA

By PETER LOVEGROVE

FTER only six months, badge was mislaken

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home service, the First Spaniards for one of the Virgin Mary, and they crossed them- Battalion, Royal Nor selves.

folk Regiment, is once again

One

In World

War One, 12

of the heading for world's most troubled spots, ballalicna of Royal Norfolks

of which eight. The battalion, which had were raised, been in Germany since 1945, served abroad-the 1st, 7th, 8th Western Front is now on its way to join the and Dth on the 1st Commonwealth Division and in Italy: the 2nd in Meso- in Korea. It is travelling in polamia; and the 4th, 6th and In Gallipoll, Egypt and the troopship Empire Or 12th well, which is due in Hong- Palatine and 6,670

the regiment were killed. kong today.

In command is 44-year-old Never failed Li-Cel. JH,R, Orlebar, who

has had practically all his ser-

In

men of

on. D-Day. And fought. with over a thousand casualties 10 Bremen by the

the last war, the First vice with the Royal Norfolks. Battalion landed in Normandy He was commissioned into the early Regiment at the age of 19 and its way commanded the Second Ballallon ca prior to Its disbandment. He an unrivalled reputation for hina also been seconded to the marine

magnificent Icamwork Sudan Defence Force, and it cheerfulness.

end of hostilities to establish

Not once did

and

il

was there that he gained the fail to capture its objective nor it ever yield. an inch of knowledge of Arabic which en-

and Field Marshal ground, abled him to become such Viscount Montgomery described

it as "second to none" in all his battalions of 21 Army Group.

successful Milliary Attache in Baghdad. His cousin, the late Air Commodore AH. Orlebar,

The other battalions of tho famous Schneider rogiment had an even more Trophy pilot, who led the Bri- gruelling time. The Second, as tish team which won the con- part of 150- 4th Infantry test in 1920 and 1931.

was

the

Globe-trotting

Few regiments of the British Army can claim to have done more gicbe-trotting, or to have taken part in moré fighting than the Royal Norfolks.

Brigade, 2nd Division, was 'ac- tually the first battalion of the British Army to land in France in September 1939. It fought on the river Escaut when the

Co

Gerinans Invaded the Low Countries, wi

withdrew to

the

Gort Line, and was eventually overrun at a lille French village called, Ironically enough, Le Paradis, In the Pas-de- Calais.

sur

Since they were raised by

who James Il as the 0th of Foot

The SS troops under the pretext of suppress roundo li dia nguished them- in Monmouth's rebellion in 3085,

111

their famous Britannia elves by shooting three men as they came forward with badge-awarded by Queen white flags to surrender, But Anne for the shirt

gallantry, they displayed at the battle of Al- worse was to come. manza during the War of

Massacro Spanish Succession has been seen on the heights

the near Rolein, on rugged The Germans Ined up the rocks of Buraco, at the parsage mon, all that remained of the of the Nive, on the banks of battalion, in the roadway, spat at the siego of on them, kicked and beat thera In the conquest

rifle butts before up with Canadien the

marching them off to a nearby with General field where hole in the ground

· roughly dug out

the unarmed,

the Suite), Belle Isle, in Havana, on

Lakts,

ef

She demonstrates the sort of gool, r.dministrative shown by Dr Edith Summer- Aki, yet the can harangue the mob with all the orator/eat are fervour people recall In and Ellen Wilkinson.

She calls the crowd "nly shirtless oncs,"

yet stands before them in the latest Dior gon dripping with jewellery.

She can behave with cun- cruelty towards ning enemies, but her tears

sometimes a she island in a

disease-ridden Wal tugal, unchecked

rolling ocean of a tale of poverty from

techch, German hears

cheren, at little

the storming of the alongside grass, spurred the lively

Afghan fortress of Isto machine-guns

in

opened up and one of her supporters.

girl with golden plails

and

bitter

of Sebastopol mowed them down. Those who cold Her actions today, pay great dark eyes to search chiatrists tell US, art

the horizon for adventure picturesque, rosuit of her c'rcum_escape.. stances as a girl.'

her

HERE can be no doubt that Great

those days of poverty and Burgoyne at

with in Por-

flow dreariness at Los Toldos, a drab Mocre art w Saratoga.

the

the

P

12

deepened...As

Iers. Prisoners

the

and

came

and in the South African veldt, the all moved or made a sound Bolds of Flanders and on the after. the firing had ceased Plave, at Gallipoll and Meso--were quickly finished-off. potamia, at St. Valery, Singa- pore and Kohima, and from Two other ranks, who sham- mcd death but were later re- Normandy to Bremen.

captured, were able to report... the massacre after the war, ond their evidence before the Wer Crimen Court in Hamburg led to a death sentence. for the SS Commander concerned....

On bright days, far to the west A visiting politician Eo of the village, the could see nearer the truth than he knew great, snow-capped mountains. when, after seeing one of the And to the east, she learnt, lay children's villages the had built for orphans, he said: "It Buenos Aires.

a great and splendid cliy -- to the work of a little girl who never hind a doll's house of her own."

Youngest

It was clear there were other worlds to conquer.'

Meanwhile, her father died, and the family was poorer than ever. Eventually her mother left the village and took her young family to Junin, a small town where she managed boarding house.

Battle honour

which

The Norfolks have also taken part in occupations of Minorca (1716), Paris (1815), Kabul (1842), the Ionian Isles (1858). A new Sceond Battalion was and Yokohama (1806), and raised In England, solled with British Division for After much research varlous THERE was no doll's house in

machine-gun section went on a the 2nd

India, and won great honour mission to Tibet in 1983. have biographers American

the house in Los Toldos where,

the at the slege of Kohima in the humility of the little inets her birth-date as May on May 7, 1919, Eva Peron was

There, between running The battle honour they are bloodiest and bitterest battle of mcmorial woman who would find the 7, 1919, which would make her born.

But the Information It was a house of mud bricks errands, fetching and carrying, most proud of is that of Al- the Burma War.

Is celebrated in

in the form

of a crown too weighty to bear. 32.

big leak which shc

with dusting and scrubbing, little Eva Burcan

controls and timber; roofed

manza,

cut from crose cut

a huge Jungle "It is the most beautiful

went to school. All she learnt every April 15. They are im Her gives her present age as 29 and corrugated iron, just one of a

mortalised in that famous pen free with a base of grey native which flanked lesson ever taught

the spurred her ambition further, points out. that she is too young number

ΠΩΣ

drum

been crected on the rock: has made up She is

remembered as which begins "Not

A moral purity places her to stand as vice-president for single street which

heard not 'a funeral note...." moody child, goy on occasions,

lonely hills around the town of above the honour," com- which the minimum age la 30. the village.

Chickens strutted the often secretive and morose, but for to them went the sad honour Kohima to commemorate their mented her newspaper De- Mussolini's wife was a dim

of burying. General Sir John gallant stand and the 100 men kitchen background

In summer dust awirl- always her huge eyes seemed to figuro kent in

died at the very who lost their lives there. mberacia,

Hitler's ed from the roadway and set- be searching, analysing, sum Moore, who kitchen and nursery. But in fact the Senora was Eva Broun wag a stupid, play. tled on the rough furniture. In ming-up. She was quick moment of victory at Corunna

was mud every learn but Impatient of school in 1800. announcing her first poli- girl. One seldom hears of Mrs Winter thore

where.

and home life. tical defeat in a career as Franco.

The And throughout the year

Things got better for rapid as it has been adven-

Eva's father, Júnn Duarte, either Duarte family! Two of her worked on his smallholding or elder sisters túrous.

Her married. hired himself out as a peon, a brother Juan had a good job. The Army have always

The boarding house was n sức- been the Argentine's king. PUT the wife of Juan Domingo labourer. BPeron,

D coachman's Her mother, of the makers. It was with their

handsome, connivance that General Argentine, shares his throne daughter,

They had one and his imelight, his ideas, Jolly woman. Peron was swept to power his ambitions-and in des Ron and four daughters of whom

youngest.

ago,

Too much

Most powerful

dlctntor

ful husband-and-ife tcam

was

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cess.

At fifteen

the

ita

by the workers six years tiny. Theirs is the most power- Eva was the

But even in a mean village DUT at fifteen: Eva had had

·lice Los Toldos, sot In the end- enough. Unknown, with since the Cacrars ruled an less calic-raising plain, the nothing but good looks and a empire,

persisted, caste system

"We keen intellect in her purse, "she Two more factors slar her were not allowed to play with re; off for Buenos Aires to seek carter as unique,

the Duarte girls. Our parents fome and fortune. DUT the prospect of a woman

Argentina is akin to Spain would not allow it," one of Eva's She turned her back on the Dbecoming their commander-

In her anti-feminism. A

thcok Sho contemporaries recalls.

pampar. In chief, which Senorn

woman's place is in the home. Was it a enub like this that eternal dust from her feet. No Peron's vice-presidency would The

enteer was. ever so in- have meant if her husband fell

that, Sho is spirited Eva on the path that or left the country, was all laught :

closely chaperoned. She is was to lead to unprecedented Fifteen years later the re- could the Army more

taught not to bother her pretty power? slomach,

Read about politics.. The workers, the Peronista

Yet here affairs party the Perona huilt up, the

of State with a women whom the Senora has delicate, shapely finger pulllag enfranchised recently

the political strings, ls in roared "Eva for Vice-Presl dent." But the Army sold "No" Woman,

tan

and they have won.

all

young Argentine girl is set the feet of the bright-eyed politically begun.

at the head of . Battle cry

landowners

O was it the sight oflage was to be an actress be actress

:

turned and her shirtless onds knell in the dust before her, spelling her name in flowers upon which she could tread.

Eva Paron's schoolgirl idea

hacienda.

village squire's home with its cool many another would-be actress

one found that the way to star And Argentino, for genere- courtyard ord magnificent

dom, is paved with refusals and always It is typical of the glam- tions, has been ruled by, either rooms where there

of seemed to be music and dance disappointment. hold Eva Peron has wealthy

•ing? on the masses that her news: caste-ridden Army or both. papers can, portray her refusal Change of government has fres... The owner of the hacienda must as the guest example of quently occurred by violence have seemed a great man to nobility, unselfishness

Yet the Senora's background: the small girl." He had power patriotism."

is that of a poor village girl of over the village. He owned She still holds more power the dreary, ignorant pampas, great herds of cattle. He hired than any other woman in the She modern history's, and fired the gauchos who rode world today handsome, supreme example of "Local dally through the village, spurs

grapped to their bare feet. couruscous, capricious, ener, girl makes good.....

the cow-

OTOUS

"an efficient," usia machilde, sipotional as any girl. *

and

TOMORROW

́ ́Eva's small parts' in films then-radio fanis. An oaria- quake brings Eva and Colonel Peron together. She helps : him in gaol, Tholm peccat romance / and Distruggio, to

as For all the astutenas by ThecompasWare the supreme power. In lue sinte,

which who has won power and

Grim tenacity

battalion

Norfolks had

been

After Kohima; tho. through that desperately hard retreat across Portugal, and marched across the Indo-Burma down the were detalled to form the ex- border to Tamu, treme rearguard covering the Kabaw Valley, and over the Irrawaddy the British Chindwin and re-embarkation of forces, Their nickname of rivers to take part in the fight- Burma which "Holy Boys" is generally being in. Central lieved to have been coined when thattered the Japanese Armies. the figure of, Britannia on their

watnes 'si'wati as'

The 4th, 5th and 6th-Bat- talions were engulfed in the Singapore tragedy of February 1042.

Many officers and most of the men were then made to work on the notorious Railway of Death, where they endured incredible hardships, and n large proportion died from tropical diseases, overwork and starvation.

The 7th Battalion-a ploncer unit-was forced to surrender: with Bist Highland Division at St Valery in June 1940, but re-formed and' went to Normandy as part of 69 Divi- sion four years later. It fought with particular gallantry at the crossing of the

Alver

where it had 220. Casuallies hold its ground......and kept": "the- bridgehead, open. Yet another battalion the 30th, was in French North Africa and Italy,

Symplomatie of the course, devoled service, and grim Lenacity displayed by Royal Norfalis is the fact that the ropliment earned a not less than Ave Victoria Crosses, a repora