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Some exhibit highlights from the work of a few of the 165-odd Indian tribes who had a fairly complex civilization when Cortes came to disturb them in 1519:
In Mexico City, meanwhile, a rump Republican Cortes met, quickly adjourned to meet another day for the purpose of setting up a Spanish Government in Exile.
One of the Inquisition's hirelings, Diego de Silva, "a large black bat transformed into a man," wanted the de Vargas acres. He was also Pedro's rival for the hand of lovely, aristocratic Luisa de Carvajal ("the perfume of her clothes set Pedro's pulses throbbing...
In Mexico City the exiled members of the Republican Cortes had been ordered to assemble on Jan. 10 by Diego Martinez-Barrio, last president of the Cortes and leader of the Junta Española de Liberatión. Included in this junta were leaders of the Center, Moderate Left...
The Paris radio announced a new face on the streets of Perpignan, France-Diego Martinez-Barrio, last President of the Republican Cortes, lately a refugee in Latin America. Somehow he had come through the Allied blockade.