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...week's end, perhaps the best indication of the tension in Bogotá was the fact that Liberal ex-President Alfonso López and Liberal Chieftain Carlos Lleras Restrepo, whose houses had been burned by the same mobs that sacked El Tiempo, took asylum in the Venezuelan embassy...
...several dashes of dramatic license to the facts. Cornel Wilde is a romantic Spanish don who is in favor of U.S. annexation. To prevent the Russians from worming their way into the orange groves, he and tomboyish Teresa Wright work their way into the bandit forces of toothy, grinning Alfonso Bedoya, who is in the pay of Czarist agents...
...heeltapping Spanish national dancing since Franco, gave their main applause to George Balanchine's new version of the classic Swan Lake. Oldsters in the audience had a dim memory, at least, of the classic style from the time when Diaghilev's Ballets Russes visited the Spain of Alfonso XIII. But they were more puzzled than pleased by such contemporary psychological pieces as Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden. Balanchine himself noted "a vast difference from the fiery enthusiasm I see at bullfights here...
...that Cardinal Segura is obsolete. Segura insists 1) that the people are incapable of self-guidance, and 2) that they need to be saved from themselves by a church-directed state which applies the rules of religion with an iron glove. In the past, Cardinal Segura clashed with King Alfonso XIII because he thought him far too mild and liberal a monarch. Nowadays, he belabors Dictator Franco for Art. 6 of the new Spanish charter, which offers the paper assurance, at least, that non-Catholics may not be "molested" because of their religion...
There are also signs that Perón is forcing La Naión, once an independent, anti-Perón daily, to conform to his line. When La Prensa was closed, La Naión's Editorial Writer Alfonso de Laferrère wrote in La Naión: "A great voice has been silenced, but its echo will continue to vibrate . . ." The Peronistas soon went to work-as they had on La Prensa-totting up a trumped-up "customs bill" of 17 million pesos that the paper was supposed to owe the government...