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Surely the world did. And without a doubt, the triumphal tour of Argentina's beryllium-bright First Lady to the musty corners of the Old World had its miraculous aspects. For sleek, 28-year-old Doña María Eva Duarte de Perón was no ordinary tourist. There was scarcely a capital where her iridescent progress had not been reported inch by inch, scarcely a newspaper from the Times of London to New York's Daily Worker which did not wonder out loud over the significance of the trip...
Even in the chancelleries where Eva's trip had been planned (President Perón hailed it as "the greatest act of its kind in Argentine history"), anguished ministers kept constant tabs on Eva by transatlantic telephone. "If only," thought some, their fingers crossed, "she'll keep off politics!" At the last minute, four weeks ago, when Eva was about to take off from Morón airport, President Perón had rushed his pet ghostwriter aboard her plane, just in case. But one never could tell about Eva. To the women of Spain, on the first...
...operas-especially Chopin," said Eva later to a reporter, admitting that her Italian reception, despite the Communists, had been "enchanting." "I don't understand politics," she continued, her alabaster hands fluttering expressively, but "I am profoundly religious." The Pope had been "marvelous." "What saintliness!" said Eva Perón, her brown eyes rolling heavenward...
...243n left Rome for Milan, the boiling sun hid under a cloud. Cooling showers put an end to the heat wave that had stifled the city. At the Argentine Embassy, a wan official ran a finger under his collar and said: "I don't know whether I'm gladder that the rain came or that Eva has gone." But in France and England, there were other Argentine officials whose worries were just beginning...
Free Hand. Devoted and well aware of his wife's value as a pressagent, Juancito gave her a free hand with her campaign for women's suffrage, her labor reforms and her peripatetic philanthropies. An undistinguished glassblower who had succeeded Perón as Secretary of Labor was moved aside to give Eva office space...