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With economic life upturned by the long struggle, the cost of living has increased 50% in Spain in the past year. Wages have not gone up. Bread lines in Catalonia are longer than during the blockade of the Republic. In Valencia, famed for its arroz dishes, there is a scarcity of rice. Aristocrats dine at Madrid's Ritz on chick peas. Butter, eggs, meat, oil. coffee and sugar are rationed, when they...
...years, 400-odd researchers have worried the question: Who was the man called Christopher Columbus? Was he a nobody from Genoa? A royal bastard from Portugal? An imaginative pirate from Catalonia? Annoyed with the name Christopher Columbus, he called himself Cristóbal Colón ("Bringer of Christ-Repopulator"). What was his real name? He claimed he went to sea at ten. Others snorted that he was only a high-pressure promoter. Why was he so evasive about his past...
Latest answer to these riddles was offered this week in a shrewd and seductive biography by erudite, witty, sparrowish Salvador de Madariaga, Spain's famed philosopher-journalist-diplomat. He declares that Cristóbal Colón was a Genoa-born, converted Spanish Jew; that his family fled Catalonia during the Jewish pogroms around...
Since the garaging of the Capone machine, Jack Bilbo has had a hand in several less lucrative activities abroad-organizing anti-Nazi movements in Germany (pre-Hitler), fighting for Haile Selassie in Abyssinia, for the Spanish Loyalists in Catalonia. On the side he says he found time to design three German villas and his own residence in Spain...
...never very enthusiastic in the prosecution of the Civil War. Stories leaked out that while attending the coronation of George VI in London in 1937 as an official Spanish delegate he approached the British Foreign Office with a view to ending the War by mediation. Last spring, after Catalonia fell, Professor Besteiro was one of the leaders of the coup which seized power from the Juan Negrin Government and set up a Defense Council with the avowed purpose of making peace with General Franco. Many believed that the French and British Governments, almost as anxious as Generalissimo Franco...