Word: andorra
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...just one cargo of linseed from the Uruguayans and a second, through UNRRA, in Argentina. They had also purchased several thousand tons of fat and tallow, 500 tons of bacon, 500 tons of ham. But Soviet-Argentine trade was about as bustling as trade between Luxembourg and Andorra...
...phlegmatic German Army sergeant and private struggled up a rugged, snowbound pass in the Pyrenees last week, stopped on the frontiers of the tiny State of Andorra. "We have orders to respect your frontier," said the sergeant to the lone frontier guard. Then they laughed and talked of other things, probably not of the 15 European countries invaded by Adolf Hitler...
...Andorra's sovereignty supposedly dates back to 777, when Charlemagne drove southward against the Saracens, then padded the Christian world with little buffer states. For centuries some 5,000 Andorran mountaineers dwelt in peace, snowbound more than half the year, in their high valley-about two-thirds the size of New York City...
During Spain's civil war Andorra was disturbed by Republican refugees but, with the aid of an army of seven mobile guardsmen lent to Andorra by the President of France, order was maintained and neutrality defended. Last week the Andorrans may well have wondered whether any country could be small enough to escape the rapacity of Adolf Hitler...
Squeezed between totalitarian Spain and totalitarian France, the little valley Republic of Andorra in the Pyrenees this week took a step away from democracy. From Madrid came word that Andorra's 5,000-odd shepherds and their families no longer enjoy universal suffrage. Only heads of families may now vote in elections...