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...that Eva Perén's visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...
Scarlet Smears. Outside the hotel entrance 18 French war orphans waited and wilted. "Vive I'Argentine, vive la France," they piped as Evita's car arrived. She hugged two of the youngsters, kissed them, leaving smears of scarlet lipstick on their sweaty cheeks...
...succeeding days there was luncheon with President Vincent Auriol at the Château de Rambouillet, dinner with Foreign Minister Bidault, a visit to Versailles. One hot afternoon (95°), Evita slipped into Notre-Dame, listened to a brief sermon, prayed, then drove back to the Ritz for a bath. Always there were rich food and champagne and the tasteless corn-bread that is found cn most French tables. It was a polite way of emphasizing French need for Argentine wheat...
...given away in her husband's name some $4,280,000 worth of schoolbooks, clothes, shoes, furniture, toys, cakes and cider. The gifts are always accompanied by one of Eva's flowery speeches, with constant references to the "heart of Perón" and the "heart of Evita." So standard have these phrases become that opposition Cartoonist Tristan draws bejeweled Eva as a blank face with a heart-shaped mouth as her only identification. Last November, when Evita traveled to the sugar-rich Tucumán province, where sugar workers live in abject peonage, seven people were crushed...
...Argentina Evita holds the official title of "First Samaritan," but whether her unbounded love for the masses has been repaid in kind is open to question. Eva has few close friends and many bitter enemies in the land of her conquest. Even the most ardent Peronistas are divided as to whether she is a boon or a blight. She constantly interferes in state affairs, and certain it is that her highhanded palace intrigues have earned Perón many an enemy he might not otherwise have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into...