Word: andalusia
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Manifestoed General Franco from Morocco: "Spain is saved! The Provinces of Andalusia, Valencia, Valladolid, Burgos, Aragon, the Canaries and the Balearic Islands, with their garrisons and civil forces, have joined enthusiastically with us. Only Madrid made an exception in sending its planes to bombard cities and towns without defense, killing women and children. . . . We will demand accounts from them as well as from those still on the fence...
CASTLE IN ANDALUSIA - Elizabeth Sprigge-Macmillan ($2.50). The English wife of a Spanish aristocrat finds modern Spain less romantic than real; by the author of The Old Man Dies...
...before he was gored Belmonte had such weak legs that he was forced to invent a special technique that made him the darling of the 20 nations that are the Spanish-speaking world. Besides, was he not operating a vast and apparently thriving olive farm and brood ranch in Andalusia...
...bitterly argued political amnesty bill. Greatest excitement took place before the gates of Cadiz Military Prison where a cheering crowd of bullfighters, waiters and young aristocrats assembled to welcome paunchy General José Sanjurjo, sentenced to death in 1932 for his abortive attempt to stage a monarchist revolution in Andalusia...
...lessons in the art of fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive. Prudent, he saved enough money to buy a ranch in Andalusia, with his Peruvian wife lives there now, a retired national idol...