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Virginia O'BRIEN

World Cossright. De arranonment with Evezino 'Standard.

Eva told me "Well, you

shall see

RIO DE JANEIRO 7ES, thank you kindly. I've made it. Good Samaritans in Buenos Aires took pity on me-and a risk on the £-peso rate. They cashed my cheques for me, and thus enabled me to pay my hotel bill and catch a plane for Río.

Well, you

me at

work

SEFTON DELMER'S Newsma)

Freing

them 03

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deh having himself hailed as the himinal with bright, high Risk of nuthors. voltage wile banîbs: Evo, all pink and rold, a human rain, how of light and optimism and

Arength.

It is simple enough as a singe now, telek. but effective all the same

in its contrast with the dark heA anci despair on those benches.

That is where I am sitting on the 18th floor of a skyscraper with the sun in my

sweat

on my face, unit the tin of hammering in m cars.

cycs

Opposite my window, bart armed Brazilian builders are working overilme adding yet another sorey to the skyscraper across the street.

For Rio never stops growing, even at the week-ends. That

It takes me a few moments to moke

my why through the wall of obsequlous young men sanding around her like a muslent comedy chorus,

*

I watch her ng she issues ber orders to their bowed and bril- antined heads obviously ch one of the many things joybig her have learned in a week crowded Judes and super-organiser and

faces, places, and superman.

with new experiences.

role as a super-

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Problem, because the ravid The law lays down that al ultra

shall

Industriallon- businesses

acquire brary of contemporary Argen- tion has been tine authors for their employees at the cost of efficiency to read

All ship calling regularly at owing Argentine ports, including those lack of trainext manpower, and which are foreign-owned, must has upset the country's economy. klro acquire library of con-

But the flight is as efficient oa temporary Argentine authors-

have made anywhere. and add to them every year.

booking-once No long. wearisome

WEDNESDAY

AFTUEND calls on me in Rio.

any I Nune troubles.

of your

trip to an airpori miles outside

town.

Sao

ISLANDS OF

NO WOMEN

'They would, cause trouble".

TINETY creole fisher-

men, who live Aix months each year on. the "Jack-in-the-box" islands of St Brandon, in the Indian Ocean, will shortly haul in their nets and sail home to their families 250 miles away in Mauritius.

Few people had ever heard' of the 15 St Brandon talets

until recently, when Mr

MADAGASCAR

SEYCHELLES

STBRAYDON.

KONOWAR BOU-

<MAURITIUS=

Miler

"They are superstitions and

David Recs-Williams, Unver- afraid of ghosts

Secretary for the Colonics,

told how Home of them A white magistrala goes once periodicallyvonlah from a year and slava a month seeing

view and bob up again later.

Snow-white sand

Only four are permanent- ly occupied.

The creoles have banned women from the falets; they Buy they would only causo trouble.

that the creates are proper's housed and fed. He denla "wiih

pelly offences on the spot..

Last year You Island was. washed away and four mon die- appeared.

the

Two were drowned on Island of Avocaire, which sub- merged.

Boats and kula were carried away from other islets, and the Fishermen catch carangues, fishermen zought refuga on the cordonniers, and darneberries, main island of Raphael until a and other exotically-named rescue party, arrived from Beh, and many go to the islands Mauritius. year after year

Sir Phillipe Raffray, London representative Mauritius Chamber of culture told me:

"The sand on the almost snow-white.

Tidal waves

"D"

C.D.E. of the Agri-

Islets is

UNING cyclones one or

two have ticen known to

disappear.

hot air

the

Equator

"Cyclones are caused by

from meeting cool nir Southern Hemisphere.

from the

"Ther rotate, and there is al- ways a calm patch 20 to 60 miles wide in the centre.

"Tidal waves swamp the lalets, overflowing inland waters and washing away sandbanks,

"Furtunately there is alwayB a warning of the approach and the creoles make for the biggest istunk.

of

"Creoles are descendants Afiican slaves. They will not ul the land, but grow their own

rcar chickens.

takes one look at me and warns: "Whatever you do, Just a 12-minute taxi ride to never let on you think it is at the air station from my hotel in yams, maize, and marrows, and nil anem bre: Braz'ans will the centre of Rio, and I buy a be most offended if you do.

"We like to pretend

it is ticket on one of the three ser- temperate and cool because we vices leaving hourly for འབt crnan

do not want to be confused Paulo. Kan not in Rio-but in Buenos rolden flyed hair and large Aires.

pink straw hat, her face lants with one of those potty little pate and waxen. I can under tropical countries where it in so stand that on the stage

the hot," Wis not much of an actress, There is the variatipa in her

Under But the week be-

MONDAY

Well, hot or freezing, I like this country. It is friendly and it is free. They got rid of their dictator, Getulio Vargas, in 1045

he had been in DOWET

And here I am, after a 90- minute Night over thie jungle, in another city of skyscrapers.

SATURDAY

THE telephone rings as I an expression.

In my evening bath (not that this is anything now). "Is

She keeps her brown eyes

CALL on Sao Paulo's Gover- that Senor Delmer?" says the fixed on whoever she is talking after

nor, yoke. "You wish to see Senora to, and

broad-shouldered, 50- her lips are always hero

Without for 13 years.

year-old six-footer Dr Adhemar Peron? Her Excellency will re slightly open whether shos bloodshed, too. ceive

if you you now

talleing or not: will

And I admire the way they Pereira de Barros, ex-henchman come right away."

"Make out an order for this are setung about modernising of Dictator Vargas. I am told Fourteen minutes later I am n

she commands. "Four

this anclerit jungle land, refer- he is likely to be Brazil's next pesos and see ming its wat ing in a corridor at the beds at 2000

primitive argiculture president, and some say its next Ministry of Labour. My card Mendez San Marin about them, to produce more food, building dictator. has been sent in and I am all Tell Felda I want him as a agog to meet this remarkable as he is through."

ago

and smiling-

MAR. -up. AR. the periodista

wants

to see me.

Gerald Schoff

-{London dogpresa Soretoes

IMAO SITOL

L.C.C.

EVENING

CLASIZS

ALL SVRJECTS

"Saje construction and oxyacetylene welding. Dlease!"

London #sprate Eerpice.

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene

EVE Industries to exploit its rich The first thing he told me in something to say. And from bla dreds" is too vowwy, veway

mineral resources

which

THURSDAY

A

of

crilics of his performance," "But NEW YORK UWERY DAY for a fortnight the play is called "Yes, M'Lord,” The Chiltern Hun- General Elcenhower has had beenuse faultless English-he studied at office at the New York Univer- Dritish." woman who has got where she, and then the notices me ant Is entirely by her own beauty. Ingles who

TAXAMINATION, of 11,000 There is a vast opportunity the London Cancer Hospital 25lty, over which he presides, ho

"I have just has covered many toples. this years ago Is:

film convinced for British

miles of brains, and push.

enterprise in

with ho deals Sometimes road- short of Eigned

£20,000,000 For shoer speed, her progress Well, you shall see me at work, country

favourite American Maryland censors, according to we redress social dollars and glad to buy goods building contract with Bra-Stateism, to power is only comparable to This is how

of

for their report to the Governor. the moment in our Injustice in mine from the bath.

Argentine." for sterling.

"moral qualities zilian firm representing a British word

Socialism, which he is against, that the Ton years

Eva Maria There

ere is 發 movement among

company,"

Sometimes he just talks of the post-war Alms have hit an all- Duarte Was still a teen-ager the secretaries as though they

Then he invites me to lunch.everyday problems of the ordin- Uime low." flirting with the lodgers in her are going to cheer, but they do mother's suburban

nol. boarding

"Have you anything like

BRUGE is to be kept an all- Politicians are suspicious of white game in the US. The house. Today she is the wife our social help movement in THEY have got their devalu- "I am all for foreign investmentary citizen.

ation problems here too, and foreign imenigration," he and consort of South America's Britain?" she asks, and

and turns to

"That is what made the this sudden burst of activity. One concerns the dollar the says,

United states and that is whini a legless man, who has one arm other the Finance Minister.

Perhaps they have said, the 28,000 members of the American most powerful dictator.

Contract Bridge Lengus, vöted will make us.

general now wants to be Pre seven to five against accepting Her portrait

in colours in a white on." she says, and

cast, blonde, smooth,

"There, my

ONE: They do not want to

sident. They thought their sus- hands him six freshly printed 50 devalue

the plelons the

"We must break down Cruzeiro — and

had been confirmed Negro applications appears

pero notes, plus a chit bearing thereby increase the value of restrictions and obstacles ob-

when the baseball World Series DEFENCE MINISTER Mr A.V. between the Yankees and the Alexander is telling Amer)- She was

was her own propaganda her passport photo and Peron's, the dollars they owe the United structing the natural inflow of staff, owns her own chain of "There's always Mr Bevan."

money to this great Brooklyn Dodgers opened. It is cans who want to know what States especially not before men and newspapers and radio stations.

But I don't think she the coffee crop has been shipped undeveloped country. Let us get an unbreakable rule for politi- will happen in Britain's election:

skilled technicians and farmer clans never to take sides in

The Government will not lose She is po O powerful that, like understands.

She had started that after to America and been paid for.

to settle and work here - Ita- World Series.

more than 20 seats, has been able to show her noon at 4.30, one of her ad- TWO: The Finance Minister Vans, Portuguese, Germans, and Out came dally Elsen- loyalty to her family.

And she will is under heavy fire because he British. And down with controls huwer bulletin. And it deait SINGER Virginia Davis entered brother has been op be here until 3 n.m. If I care negligently failed to renew the and red tape bureaucracy."

Europe with baseball. But the general four countries in pointed alde to Pran. When to walt and take my tum with revaluation guarantee with the

was discussing a World Series with I can understand them being that began 25 years ago.

world passport No. A- the Argentine's Calef Justice the many high-ups waiting here

000017 Issued to her by brother current afraid of this man, He died leaving Eva's sister Blanca to see her when the distribution Bank of England for the sterling

Latest estimate

self-proclaimed of Elsen Garry Davia, a widow, Peron's parliament is over, he is sure I can have account..

unconventional and he is ener-hower's chances of winning the World Citizen No. 1. She re obedien jy, voted her a comfor another word with her.

getic,

New York, Republican nomination in 1952: turned to iablo pension.

Aloo, am due at an Imi- Although the amount involved

The elections are due in a Good, because the Republicans showed her passport to the im portant dinner party, and I am is only a few hundred thousand

officer.

Sald he are afraid they will have to fight migration badly late already. So I take pounds, the Brazilians are angry year's time.

"World citizen? Huh, we don't Truman again. with him. They fear the wily

bellova in that stuff.” To avoid. my leave

Argentines are laughing #t

Ellis Island she had to show her them.

U.S. passport.

de of Peron's here by

10

Joseph at Pharaoh's Court, she

Her

**

*

And here I am, being shown In: But, instead of the elegant. Cabinet room in which I usual- ly and myself on such occa- sions,

I am now in a large hall, and gloomy at one end.

dark

bright at the other.

I mv.

Jutants tells me.

TUESDAY

the way to Buenos Aires airport the bus passes un- der an arch.

held by Brazil in Ils

3

I

FRIDAY

A guard of honour (not for mel) is drawn up at the airport as I leave.

AMOPHONE chops all over the U.S. are refusing to sell a new Paul Robeson record. 11

The State troopers are in full is one he made of his version of Lifeguards uniform. And they the recent riots at his political FLY, to Sao Paulo, industrial aro mounted on motor-concerti At the dark end there aro Long Live Eva, idol of the. capital of Brazil, whose bleycles. THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND

rows and rows of benches -poor,” it reads. To Judge from, rapid growth during the last crowded *with mendicants the text of a new low coming eight years is tho realest AL 2.30, cripples on crutches, tatered up before the Argentine parlia pride, and greatest problem, of 130, 7.30 & women nursing infants.

ment,

will soon be Brazil Peron

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NANCY

OH, DEAR ---

Toe-Timing

HOPE

I WAKE UP IN TIME

FOR THAT

PICNIC TOMORROW

DEAR

MILKMAN

PLEASE PULL THIS STRING

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INCONVINCED that all that

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