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...them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily in the luxurious Andalusia Palace Hotel, onetime Mecca of wealthy tourists who used to pack-jam Seville each year for Easter. Madame Lupescu continued to stroll in the gardens with her four dogs while Carol showed the same roving eye as ever for beauteous female barflies. No longer a great romance...
Madame Lupescu had sent on ahead to Portugal three trunks full of her furs and most of the enormous treasure with which she and Carol fled Rumania. Last week she simply sent her servants out of the Andalusia Palace, gathered up a purse containing her jewelry, and with Carol at the wheel stepped into his Mercedes "for a drive." They were soon bowling along in the suburbs of Seville, trailed as usual by a police car. Then Carol tramped full down on the accelerator. Over the Andalusian and Estremaduran plains they tore madly for 100 miles. The police were left...
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Paid $15,000 for his Columbus, Irving started off in 1828 on his famous journey through Andalusia, Spain's South, gathering material for and writing on The Conquest of Granada and The Alhambra. Traveling through wild mountains with a Russian prince for companion, he met contrabandistas, looked for bandits, was feted by village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls...
Last week the old-line generals of Spain showed signs of banding together once again to repel an invader of their ancient rights and privileges. Fortnight ago General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, little "tsar" of Andalusia, and General Juan Yagüe, commander of the Moroccan Army Corps, were dismissed from their posts, presumably because of too ardent opposition to the Fascist notions of the youthful, fiery Ramón Serrano Suñer, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Minister of the Interior and, next to the Generalissimo, Spain's most powerful figure. Last week the list...