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Change the Subject. After a personally conducted tour of Senora Peron's charitable enterprises, Diplomat Miller said: "No citizen of the Americas can fail to hope for the success of any program to improve the lot of the common people of the country." Reporters from the official press were not quite satisfied. An El Mundo man asked his exact opinion of Senora Peron's work. "I have been deeply impressed," said Miller. "Your visit here," continued the reporter, "reminds us of Ambassador Bruce's words that General Peron was a great leader of a great nation. What...
Over & over, the Buenos Aires radio blared praise of Peron and La Senora. Scarcely half an hour went by without a newscaster using the phrase: "The wife of the President of the Republic, Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron." Argentines were inured to such laminated logrolling, but their Uruguayan neighbors across the River Plate had to hear it too, and they were not amused...
...story went round. Uruguay's own first lady, handsome, retiring Dona Matilde Ibanez de Batlle Berres, a woman whose chief interests are her three children and her garden, had made one of her rare public appearances in an official visit to an elementary school in Flores Department. When Senora de Batlle Berres came into one of the classes, the teacher, anxious to show off her pupils, called on an eight-year-old for the name of the wife of the President of the Republic. Blurted the radio-prepped moppet: "Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron...
Widow's Might. In a cream-colored stucco house in suburban Teusaquillo, things had changed, too. There, beside the bier of her murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial...
...between egotism and patriotism was tough. For a time the energetic First Lady faltered. But to la Senora, long snubbed by stiff-necked, short-pedigreed Argentine society because she came from the wrong side of the tracks, the trip to Madrid seemed a chance to prove her social acceptability. Last week, she made up her mind: she would go. Democracia confidently reported that Senora Peron's visit would "revive the diplomatic life of Madrid...