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...controlled Spanish press, which had been treating touring Congressmen as if each was a cigar-chomping oracle, bottled the story up tight for 24 hours. Then Madrid's Arriba burst forth with an angry editorial which accused Pfeifer and his two companions-Democratic Congressmen Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin and Thomas S. Gordon of Illinois-of "malice and shortsightedness." What was Spain going to do about the U.S.? Cried Arriba: "The answer is simple. Nothing. We are going to do nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American...
Such footnotes to the American Revolution made interesting reading but Arriba was not quite telling all. Hoping to weaken both British imperialism and the threat of a people's government in the New World, Spain had sent the colonies secret shipments of clothing, salt and munitions through the private mercantile house of Gardoqui & Sons-but only in quantities calculated to protract the struggle without making a real decision possible. When Washington's army began winning important victories, Spanish interest in the Revolution abruptly vanished...
Uphill Struggle. During his campaign for the governorship last fall, Muñoz had electrified voters with a rousing, un-demagogic slogan, "Jalda Arriba!" (Uphill!). To crowds thronging around him he had cried: "The job takes time. We are going uphill." Since then, Jalda Arriba has been set to music and chorused at political rallied...
...more plants, more jobs and more goods at home. If Puerto Rico can build up industry, and get on top in her battle of production, then a growing population will be an asset instead of a liability. For Muñoz and his people the slogan is still: "Jalda Arriba...
Today! Tomorrow! Yesterday! A Swiss newspaper said that the foreign press corps in Germany was betting the invasion would fall between May 6 and June 7. Other guessers picked the date with solemn certainty: May 10, fourth anniversary of the German invasion of the Low Countries. The Madrid newspaper Arriba, having conned tide tables, set the time of invasion as either 4:41 a.m. Saturday or 4:39 a.m. Sunday. Saturday and Sunday came and went. The Helsinki Sanomat announced it had "learned" that invasion was under way, with landings in several places. Neither the Germans nor the Allies seemed...