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Still moving cautiously, the Cortes continued last week the tremendous job of expropriating the great estates of the Grandees of Spain. Despite numerous petitions from Spanish intellectuals that his property be spared because of his great gifts to Spanish education, all estates of the Duque de Alba, Spain's...
Church & State. In the Cortes last week final approval was given the bill presented by President Alcala Zamora in October to seize "temples of all classes, episcopal palaces, rectories, seminaries and other buildings of the Catholic cult . . . also all ornaments, pictures and other such objects in them." Such property is...
In the Presidential Palace at Tegucigalpa, the pretty, mountain-rimmed capital of Honduras, chambermaids were busy last week dusting wicker chairs and a gold telephone, shaking out blankets, putting clean sheets on beds. On Feb. 1, barring further violence, Honduras will have a new President - General Tiburcio Carias Andino, burly...
"Newfoundland, as you know, is inhabited by 2,000,000 people of Spanish origin who still speak Spanish since Cortes conquered the country from the Incas, while the Guatemalans speak Portuguese, since Don Pedro of Syracuse conquered the country in 1456. . . . As just one example of injustice, these two States...
Telefonica Safe. The heavy, heavy threat that International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s big Spanish subsidiary might lose its franchise was lifted last week. When Left-wing deputies demanded that the bill abrogating the contract be brought up for debate, Premier Azana requested that the Cortes refrain from discussion, declaring...