Word: cortese
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In Mexico ambitious Diego Martínez-Barrio, last president of Spain's Republican Cortes, presided over a meeting of four factions: Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left), Unión Republicana, Catalána Esquerra (Catalan Left), Partido Nacionalista Basco (Basque Nationalists). Main agreement: that the last president of the...
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...
On the appointed day, in the big, black Mercédés-Benz given him by Hitler, the Caudillo slid down the Puerta del Sol and Carrera de San Jerónimo. In the Puerta del Sol. he was greeted by trumpeters, and again in front of the Cortes...
Once again the Caudillo slapped the faces of his Allied appeasers. Three weeks after U.S. Ambassador Hayes praised the Franco Government (whose Blue Division is fighting with the Wehrmacht against Russia), and publicized the aid that Spain was receiving from the U.S., Axis-Admirer Francisco Franco boasted to the Cortes...
As a prop to totalitarianism, the new Cortes appeared to be no barrier to Juan's restoration. Possibly it is an evasion, but quite as likely it is a prelude. As king, Juan obviously would have to front for a sorely beset dictator.