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...Argentina itself, Evita's tour was the talk of every town. Whether they considered her God's gift to the working class or a devil's advocate against the established order, the citizens of Argentina, who are Argentine first and partisan second, could not repress their pride in the First Lady's spectacular accomplishments...
...work from 9 to noon receiving delegations of workers and trade unionists, hearing hard-luck stories and doling out advice and aid. A battery of secretaries is always on hand to take notes and handle a voluminous correspondence. In the afternoons, after a quick lunch with Perón, Evita is on her rounds again, visiting factories, addressing workers or distributing largess in the best bread-&-circus style...
...Down! Down!" Evita, fresh from her triumph in Spain (TIME, June 23) and a greeting from the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Sforza, stepped to the Embassy's balcony to receive the applause she expected. A straw hat with two huge roses topped her honey-colored hair piled in a pompadour; her black silk dress with pink print flowers was pulled tight...
...next day Evita, usually tardy, was ready ahead of time, dressed appropriately in ankle-length black dress and long black cape, for her audience with Pope Pius XII. The Pope talked to her for exactly the customary 30 minutes, had kind words for her husband's concern for Argentine underprivileged, his aid to war-torn countries of Europe, his contributions to papal charities. At interview's end, the Pope gave her a handsome rosary. Then Evita went on to visit the Borgia apartments (which are still haunted, Italians say, by the ghosts of libertine Pope Alexander...
...Evita herself will take home no papal decoration. Peronistas had hoped she might be given a papal title that would enable Argentina's First Lady, born on the wrong side of the tracks, to out-snoot Buenos Aires' stuffy aristocracy...