Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living Spirit. In other Latin American countries - Cuba, Chile, Colombia, and even Argentina - smaller colonies worked hard "keeping alive the spirit of Republican Spain." And in Russia thousands of Spanish children were housed and educated. Socialist-minded Diplomat de Palencia does not dwell on the political activities of the Republic's refugees, does her best to lay the bogey of Communism that has so damaged the Loyalist cause in America. But her book leaves no doubt that doctrinal disputes mean far less to her than does a united front to carry the smouldering torch of freedom back to Spain...
Moreover, he knew South America well. He had gone to Chile for Westinghouse Electric in 1920 and had represented U.S. business or government in South America almost ever since. He was the U.S. representative at the 1935-38 Chaco peace conference, later became U.S. Ambassador to Colombia and Cuba. As Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs, his booming voice would now be heard everywhere south of the border...
...Diplomatic relations with Russia had just been resumed, and the Administration foresaw the possible need of $1 billion in credits for Russian purchases in the U.S. But Russia never got the loan. In its first two years, E.I.B. made just two important loans-$13 million to Cuba, and $673,000 to finance tobacco exports to Spain. Jesse Jones, the RFC chairman, cracked that he could carry its business in his vest pocket. E.I.B. was a dull place...
...Haiti & Cuba. Junyer's interest in stage design began with ballet, which was a logical development from the pictures he had been painting: ceremonial native dances of Haiti and Cuba. The Picasso-like touches in some of his paintings were equally logical. Junyer grew up in Barcelona, where his father was a collector of Spanish Romanesque art and one of Pablo Picasso's early patrons. When the boy, who lost his hearing while still a child, went to Paris to start his painting career he fascinated the great Pablo by his uncanny mastery of lipreading...
...European centers, and for ten years running in the Carnegie International show at Pittsburgh. In 1936 he returned to Spain to become a Government art consultant. The Spanish civil war blasted him into wide wanderings-back to Paris, to London, then to the U.S. by way of Haiti and Cuba. With him came his vivaciously pretty wife Dolores Canals, an expert on child psychology and care...