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...White House last week came Alberto Martin Artajo, Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, for a social call on the President and Mrs. Eisenhower. Artajo and aides were homeward bound from a week of inconclusive but encouraging exploration at the State Department on such topics as increased military and economic aid and U.S. sponsorship of Spanish membership in NATO...
...Artajo, first Spanish Foreign Minister to visit the U.S. or be received by a President, brought, his wife to meet the Eisenhowers, but left his attractive daughter Mercedes, 20, at National Airport to await them. Informed that Mercedes was miffed, Ike gallantly declared that he too was miffed, had an aide hurry across town to fetch an excited Mercedes back for a special interview in his office. Ike asked how she liked American boys. Answered Mercedes: "They're very friendly...
Among the presents brought by Artajo were a lace mantilla for Mamie Eisen hower, a purebred Spanish burro and a saddle for grandson David. He left the White House with inscribed pictures of the President and First Lady, and a friendly farewell from Ike, who mustered up enough of his Army Spanish to call out: "Vaya con Dios...
Last week Dunn and Spanish Foreign Minister Alberto Martin Artajo signed a 20-year defense agreement, with accompanying economic and military assistance pacts. The U.S. will give Spain $226,000,000, already appropriated by Congress, in military and economic aid. In return, the Spaniards give U.S. armed forces the right to use and develop certain Spanish bases. Their probable locations: air bases near Madrid, Barcelona and Seville; naval facilities at the Atlantic port of Cadiz, the Mediterranean port of Cartagena...
...Foreign Minister Martin Artajo and a team of 20 diplomats (including Spain's Lieut. General Mohammed Ben el Mizzian, a devout Moslem) were off on a tour of the Middle East. Their mission: to sell the Moslem states on the idea that Spain, with her ancient cultural ties to Islam, is the natural intermediary between the Middle East and the Western powers. Artajo told leaders that nationalist unrest is just playing into the hands of the Russians. Results so far are meager, but if Franco's missionaries win Moslem converts, the troubled West may be grateful to Madrid...