Word: andorra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came disquieting news last week from the quaint and anomalous neutral principality, republic and bishopate of Andorra...
...prince of Andorra is the President of France, who claims that title as the successor of its original holder, French King Henry IV. The Republican government is administered by a locally elected "Council of 24." The Spanish Bishop of the See of Durgel is by medieval right a "Suzerain of Andorra...
...disquieting news of last week was that a French company with $4,500,000 capitalization has acquired the right to make Andorra a second "Monte Carlo" and proposes to have a roulette casino and hotel de luxe completed...
...Hitherto Andorra has been almost inaccessible, tucked away remotely in the Pyrenees. But the syndicate will build motor roads, a railroad, and import the fripperies of Nice, Biarritz and the Lido...
Paternally he listened while they explained that the Bishop of Urgel, his co-Suzerain, has recently appointed not Andorrans but Spaniards to carry the Andorra mails. Here was surely an abuse that stank to Heaven! Would not good Prince Gaston move the hard heart of the haughty Prince-Bishop...