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...Thinner and paler than ever after a month's illness, Evita Perón came back last week to perhaps her greatest triumph. The occasion was the Peronistas' Loyalty Day, celebrating the day in 1945 when Juan Perón was sprung from prison and swept back into power on the shoulders of his "shirtless" supporters. This year the day was dedicated to Evita...
...wife, said Perón, is "not only the standard bearer of our movement but its soul and guiding spirit." Rising slowly from her chair, Evita read her reply in a low-pitched voice. She thanked Perón "for having taught me to know you and love you." She had left her bed to come, she said, because of her debt of gratitude "to Perón and to you, the workers-I do not care whether I have to part with pieces of my life to pay it." For two minutes the crowd chanted: "Our lives...
...more than a year rumors circulated that Evita suffered from anemia, but the terrific pace of her public life belied the reports. A fortnight ago doctors announced that she was in bed with influenza. She was so ill on the day of the revolt that she was given a blood transfusion and not told of the uprising until it was over. Then she insisted on speaking over the radio from her sickroom at the presidential residence...
Buenos Aires' great independent newspaper La Prensa, killed by President Perón last spring, is to begin a new existence this month as the mouthpiece of Perón's General Confederation of Labor. The present editor of Evita Perón's demagogic, anti-U.S. Democracia is slated to be editor. He plans to get out his first edition Oct. 18, the morning after the Perónistas' Loyalty Day. Oct. 18 will also be the Sand anniversary of La Prensa's founding...
...Radicals indulged in no idle bragging about an election victory. They were fully aware that the entire resources of the government were stacked against them. But they were encouraged that the Peron regime was showing signs of internal strain. The tip-off had been Evita's sudden withdrawal from the vice-presidential race after the disclosure that the army disapproved of her candidacy. Certainly part of the Radicals' new defiance rose from the belief that the army no longer fully backed Perón. But they were not pinning their hopes on a barrackroom revolt. Another Radical orator...