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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.

In Montevideo, a 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."

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