"The Air We Breathe"

When government employees assembled in Buenos Aires' Luna Park last week to give ceremonial thanks to Juan Peron for a 20% to 30% pay raise, wife Evita Peron was on hand, primed to deliver the invocation.

Bowing before her husband, she declaimed: "Peron is the air we breathe, Peron is our sun, Peron is life. I want nothing but to be the heart of Peron. Because though I do my best to understand him and learn his marvelous ways, whenever he makes a decision, I barely mumble. Whenever he speaks, I hardly utter a single word. Whenever he gives advice, I scarcely dare make a suggestion. What he sees I hardly glimpse. But I see him with the eyes of my soul . . . And I have pledged myself to collect the hopes of the Argentine people and empty them in the marvelous heart of Peron so that he may turn them into realities.

"The humble people, my general, have come here to prove, as they have always done, that the miracle that happened 2,000 years ago is occurring again. The rich, the learned, the men in power never understood Christ. It was the humble and the poor who understood, because their souls, unlike the souls of the rich, are not sealed up with avarice and selfishness."

The understanding crowd chanted:

One-two-three-four

We want Peron for evermore.*

* In Spanish:

Uno-dos-tres-cuatro Tenemos Peron para rate.

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