Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present (17th) Duke of Alba has tried all his life to make friends instead of enemies, has largely succeeded. His name is Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart, and he is distantly related to Winston Churchill.* Last week the thin-faced, scholarly, impassive Duke made some more friends by resigning his post in London as Francisco Franco's Ambassador. The Franco regime, he said, was "harmful to the best interests of Spain...
...second Nazi submarine, the 600-ton U-977, last week popped up off the Argentine naval base of Mar del Plata. She showed the swastika flag, startled a lonely fisherman. Then Argentine war craft mothered her into port. Cracked Montevideo's El Diario: "It is surprising, this marked preference of Nazi vessels for Argentina...
...This week brought managerial news from the National League too: a nine-game losing streak catapulted Manager Bob Coleman of the seventh-place Boston Braves out of office, gave Coach Del Bissonette his chance...
...submarine base at swank Mar del Plata, fishermen trolled through the wintry, misty Argentine dawn. Out of the grey murk loomed the bulk of a big sub marine. Its engines silent, it rolled gently with the waves. The fishermen noted the craft's unfamiliar lines, went right on fishing...
...crew of 54 men to a hot meal and a haircut, then interned them in a Navy rest camp. Skipper Wermoutt's story: on V-E day, the U-530 was operating in the North Atlantic. He had decided to surrender at Mar del Plata. He did not explain why it had taken him more than two months to get there, why the sub had jettisoned its deck guns, why the crew members carried no identification, nor what had happened to the ship...