Word: alcazar
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...siege of Madrid, on the day Burgos was recognized last week, had been proceeding for 20 days and was directly in command not of the Generalissimo but of General Jose Varela, the man who went to the rescue of Toledo and lifted the famed siege of the Alcazar (TIME, Sept. 28). Last week Generalissimo & President Franco was in Salamanca when news of the Italo-German recognition came and with him rejoiced Spain's No. 1 Philosopher, famed Miguel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca. With the whole city celebrating, anyone who looked like an Italian...
Meanwhile White Generalissimo Franco arrived at the Alcazar Fortress which his Whites relieved after 71 days of heroic siege (TIME, Oct. 5). Haggard, tattered and bearded, the cadets and soldiers of Spain's West Point garrison, who have written one of the most exciting pages in their country's modern history, lined up in front of the Generalissimo, a dumpy little chief in a tasseled forage cap. Down the line he went, kissing each man and clasping him hard. Then out stepped the Alcázar's heroic Commandant, bearded, emaciated Colonel José Moscard...
...Alcazar and Alhambra. In broiling summer Madrid were scarcely any Ambassadors or Ministers when the Revolution broke. Of the diplomatic underlings left to run things none has hung on more tenaciously in Madrid than U. S. Third Secretary Eric Wendelin, buttressed by his spunky wife. Last week even the brave diplomatic pups of the Great Powers were about to be whistled home. To 156 U. S. citizens still in Madrid, most of whom have commercial interests there, gallant Mr. Wendelin gave notice that at any moment he might be obliged to close the U. S. Embassy and that every...
...mellow and historic old Toledo, and out to it went Hearst's von Wiegand escorted by Red Militia. Wrote he afterwards: "A militiaman with a .32 calibre, nickelplated revolver in his hand stood at my side in a narrow and barricaded street only 180 yards from the Alcazar [fortress of Toledo]...From the battered, smoke-begrimed windows of the magnificent fortress the intermittent bursts of rifle and machine-gun fire, replying to the Radical Government besiegers, seem to have aroused the deepest hatred of the Red elements. ... As we passed the Archbishop's Palace one of my Militia...
...bawdy Paris music halls outside which the public was expected to park its sense of shame. More popular than ever. Miss Warner has been cashing in on her indictment all winter, banking the wages of dirt, and appearing at numerous night clubs and galas as well as the Theatre Alcazar which advertises "Naked Women in the Manner of the Burlesque Shows of New York...