Word: colon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such "proof" is only a starter for de Madariaga's deductive pièce de resistance. Now he traces Colon's Jewish origin in his character-in his Messianic bent; in his preoccupation with human "contracts"; in his studious avoidance of editorial judgment on the expulsion of the Jews at a time when such sentiments were as conventional as Heil! in Nazi Germany; in his fascination with gold and jewels (rather more esthetic and symbolic than mercenary...