Eva Perón, the idol of the people, has been laid to her final rest in a glass casket set up in the largest of the squares of Buenos Aires, so that the woman who loved her people, and whom they loved, might remain forever before their eyes. Today, two months after her death, the square around her glass casket still teems with thousands of her devotees. The people have offered two million wreaths of flowers, which surround the casket to great distances and have risen to a height of thirty feet, and the workers have sworn to lay a wreath upon the casket every evening for as long as they live. Nor will the idol of Argentina be buried; rather, the people have cabled His Holiness the Pope asking that the papers of beatification be sent, confirming her sanctity and enrolling her among the saints of the papal Church. Among the letters received by the American magazine Time was this one:
Sir, we the people of Latin America respect and greatly admire your own Eleanor Roosevelt, even though she is constantly attacked by most of the newspapers; so we beg you to show greater respect for Eva Perón, who died this past August and who was a singular personality, whether you people of the North like it or not... And the publisher of Time magazine replied, saying:
Sir, Eva Perón attained an exceptional degree of greatness and won the hearts of the people as no other American woman has done or ever will...
Since 1935 the Turkish woman has enjoyed all her political and social rights, and she has sat in the Turkish parliament since that date. Today there are more than 100 women working as judges and deputy prosecutors, while the women lawyers and university professors are beyond counting; and in every Turkish embassy or legation abroad there
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is more than one woman. This month the Turkish woman drew the world's attention to something deep-rooted in her — tradition and the keeping of it, or pride, or call it what you will. The Turkish Miss Giseli Basar was chosen from among 12 beautiful girls to be Miss Europe. But Giseli refused to wear the bikini bathing suit, which is the favorite wear of Europe's beauty queens today, and insisted on remaining in the modest bathing suit she had on. Miss France, who ranked just below her, whispered, "Her hips are not trim and beautiful — that is why she is afraid of the bikini." Giseli did not stir at this challenge and insisted on keeping to the modest costume, while the judges insisted just as firmly. The first prize was a contract with a motion-picture company, which the company presented to the winner; but the Turkish Miss refused the contract with the utmost pride, saying: "I want to return to Istanbul to complete my studies in the arts." And so the somber Middle East, as the English newspapers put it, goes on drawing the attention of the West.
In the American state of Illinois there is a small town called Europa. The girls of this town were alarmed to find that the young men had gone on strike against marriage, so they thought up a new remedy. First the girls invaded the posts that had
been reserved for men, entering and filling them, from the office of mayor down to the office of jailer. Then orders went out to the women's police to arrest every bachelor who could not produce reasons to justify his remaining unmarried. The arrests began, the prison doors were opened, and the prisons filled up. Then the young men were brought to trial before a judge who was also a woman, and the lightest sentences she handed down were a fine of 40 shillings, or two pounds sterling, on condition that the young man pledge to marry as soon as possible. As for the young man who would not pay the fine, his penalty was to have a quantity of his blood taken and sent to the war wounded in Korea. The result was that a great number of the young men made haste and got married, while many hid in their houses and stayed away from their work for
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