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...powerful and wealthy organizations. Argentina's 1,000,000 Spaniards are knit together by several score fraternal groups and by the Catholic Church, many of whose dignitaries are pro-Fascist Italians and Spaniards. Principal coordinator for Fascist propaganda and Hispanidad organizations is the "Com-ision Organizadora del Primer Congreso de la Cultura Hispano-Americana," all of whose functionaries are well-known authoritarians, admirers of the "New Order" in Europe...
Workers in undernourished, underhoused, underclothed Spain began in January to prepare the Cortes for its greatest Fascist hour. To change the onetime chamber of the Congreso de los Diputados to a hall fit for grandees, the offending red upholstered seats were changed to blue. Marble tables bearing honor rolls of past liberal leaders were removed. Paintings and inscriptions distasteful to the Falange were torn from the walls. The President of the Cortes' dais was raised to befitting Fascist level. Special space was allotted to the junta of the Falange. Carefully, it was seen that no accommodation for public...
...somber religious pictures, made an old-fashioned brass bed. Icy rains had brought autumn to Argentina, and the master of the house in the Calle Juncal, Ramon S. Castillo, was moving in from his suburban quinta in Martinez beside the Rio de la Plata. In the domed Palacio del Congreso, Acting President Castillo's political housekeepers were similarly occupied. They swept out the debris of one of the most extraordinary sessions any legislative body had ever held, made ready for the opening of a new session of Congress this month. At this session Acting President Castillo must make...
...should have been a sober impressive moment when the first constitutionally elected Cortes since the Second Republic assembled in Madrid last week and took their seats in the Congreso de los Diputados. But nobody had time to pay any attention to them for all hell was breaking loose in Madrid, Badajoz, Valencia, Murcia, Granada, Teruel and the north...
...SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA. Lic. D. Luis Anderson, y sus triunfos en el Congreso Centro Americano, celebrado en Washington." Mr. E. Machado Lara. Ridgely...