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...London last week the people were still angry over the bombs in the Spanish oranges (TIME, Jan. 24), but the official reaction was not frightening. Anthony Eden assured the House of Commons that he had personally told Spain's Ambassador, the Duke of Alba, of the serious effect which continuing unneutral assistance to the enemy would have on Anglo-Spanish relations, now and later. Eden said that Sir Samuel Hoare in Madrid had received instructions to tell Franco the same thing: But Eden rejected a request for stronger action, saying that oral representation has worked pretty well-in some...
Count Nova de Tajo, 26, glossy but genuine Spanish count, was arrested as a Nazi spy by the FBI. Among plushy U.S. gullibles, he possessed several assets besides his liquid eyes. The Duke of Alba is his cousin, Columbus was his reputed ancestor. He is the husband of Powers Model Wilma Baard, barge captain's full-fashioned daughter who was launched in society in 1938 by such sponsors as Lucius Beebe and Cartoonist Peter Arno. According to the FBI, she never knew that the count was 1) unsuccessfully delving into U.S. war production, 2) unsuccessfully trying to feel...
...Britain rumor said that the Franco Government's promonarchist Ambassador, the Duke of Alba (TIME, July 5), was touting restoration of the Spanish Bourbons. Reported The Week: Spanish monarchists had decided not to seek to replace Caudillo Franco from within but to work from abroad through influential friends in England...
...Germans are bullheaded and overbearing. Not all Japanese are bucktoothed. Not all Italians pinch bottoms. But last week Adolf Hitler could well agree with the Duke of Alba, Philip of Spain and Napoleon before him that all Dutchmen are stubborn. The evidence...
With the centuries his reputation increased, but of his many paintings, fame touched particularly his sweet, overblown Madonnas: The Madonna of the Chair, the Alba Madonna, the Sistine Madonna. The world agreed with Lübke, 19th-Century German art historian, that the Sistine Madonna "is, and will continue to be, the apex of all religious art." Queen Victoria thought Raphael "delightful" and refined. His Sistine Madonna became almost as familiar a Victorian figure as that of the reigning monarch...