Word: andorra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High in the Pyrenees is a series of interconnecting blind valleys that constitute the State of Andorra. Because this little (191 square miles) pocket in the mountains between France and Spain has no strategic or economic importance it remains a feudal relic. The 5,200 Catalan-speaking citizens make a hard living by keeping sheep and goats and rolling cheap cigarettes. They rule themselves through a legislative Council General of 24 members and an executive First Syndic. Co-princes of Andorra are the Spanish Bishop of Urgel and the President of France, who, as head of the French Republic, inherits...
Last week the Elders of Andorra hiked over the mountains to France to pay their annual tribute to their French prince. According to laws dating back to 1278, it should have consisted of two of every kind of livestock raised in Andorra. President Lebrun, however, has no place to keep sheep and goats in the Elysée Palace at Paris, so his representative, Prefect Raoul Didkowski of the Lower Pyrenees, instead accepted...
...Catalonian front Rightist troops advanced 40 miles along the mountainous French border to within ten miles of the tiny State of Andorra. They controlled at week's end nine of the twelve main roads from Spain to France. Barcelona Leftists again purged suspected Rightist sympathizers, two cinema theatres being necessary to hold one night's haul. Leftist organ La Vanguardia philosophized that such measures "repugnant as they are to a spirit of liberalism, are justified by the circumstances...
...general manifesto, he announced: "I have lived in exile in 15 European countries in flight from the U. S. income-tax collectors. If Andorra refuses me, the only other European country I may visit is Liechtenstein. . . . I'm a real gangster, it's true, but I'm no criminal, and I want to remain what I have always been -honest. Europeans make a big mistake when they give honesty a meaning it never had. I've never kidnapped anybody...
Impressed by these displays Andorra sent back its reply, "No Admittance...