Word: barroso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morocco's King Mohammed V declines to admit that the 12,000-man Liberation Army even exists. To repeated protests of the army's "aggressions," complained Spain's War Minister Antonio Barroso recently, all Spain has got back "are replies that Spain was responsible for them...
...Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso nosed past Sugar Loaf into Guanabara Bay last week, jet planes circled in the sky and shore batteries roared a royal 21-gun salute. On the cruiser's fantail, beneath the old imperial colors,* lay two oak coffins. They contained the remains of Princess Isabel of Braganza and her French consort, Gaston Count d'Eu. Brazil was honoring a national heroine, the princess who freed the slaves...
...50th anniversary of the "Golden Law," as the emancipation act became known, President Getulio Vargas decreed that the princess' remains should be brought home. The outbreak of World War II delayed the project, and almost 15 years passed before Vargas was back in office again. When the cruiser Barroso sailed for the British coronation ceremonies, it afforded an opportunity to bring the princess home in state...
Earlier in the week, Brazil had taken up a similar offer to buy the cruisers Philadelphia and St. Louis for $8,600,000. The ships will be rechristened Almirante Barroso and Almirante Tamandaré. Chile also signed to take over the cruisers Brooklyn and Nashville...