Word: bourthomieux
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...very day of this Papal blast a self-appointed commission to investigate Spain's atrocities reached Madrid. Led by the 5th Earl of Listowel, the investigators consisted of M. Charles Bourthomieux of the French Court of Appeals. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, a pert proletarian and onetime British Labor M. P., and Lord Listowel's secretary, a Czech named Katz...
When every Madrid newspaper of consequence denounced the Commission as an "affront to Spain," French Commissioner Bourthomieux discreetly took the first train for Paris. The Britons and the Czech stuck, to be jeered by hoodlums in the streets. Armed with a letter from Premier Lerroux, they sped to Asturias, the "Atrocities Province," presented their credentials at Oviedo to Major Doval, the Military Acting Governor. "Certainly, my Lord and Miss Wilkinson," beamed the Major, "it will be a pleasure...
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