Word: espa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ESPANOL recently queried their way through six capital cities. Carefully gathering answers from every group in the socio-economic spectrum, the pollsters were out to discover just how Latin America feels about the U.S. after the stoning of Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas. This week LIFE EN ESPAÑOL (July 28) published the eye-opening results...
...Eisenhower Administration's policy toward Latin America gets articulate interpretation in the current issue of LIFE EN ESPAÑOL. The writer is Henry Holland, the State Department's Latin American Affairs chief from 1954 until he resigned last August to join the Manhattan law firm of Anderson & Roberts. Holland's main points...
...Loyalists captured his 16-year-old son. Luis Moscardó, put the boy on the phone to talk to his father. The conversation: "Papa." "What is it, my son?" "They say they will shoot me if you don't surrender." "Then commend your soul to God, cry Viva España, and die like a patriot." "A big kiss, papa." "A big kiss, my son." Within ten minutes, the Loyalists shot young Moscard...
...crucial battle of the Spanish civil war was fought in Madrid's University City. On the ruins of the historic university buildings Dictator Franco built a new seat of learning. To guard against the revival of the old liberal traditions, he set up the Sindicato Español Universitario (called the S.E.U.), an arm of the Falange Party to which every student was obliged to belong. Last week, 17 years after the battle of University City, a serious open revolt against the Franco regime was sparked in University City, and spread across Madrid in three days of violent street...
...drooping over his incandescent eyes and talking, always talking "as if he were pursued." Two days after the Spanish civil war broke out, Malraux dashed off to join the Loyalists, explaining, "I am always more comfortable in a revolution than in a salon." There he organized and ran the España squadron, a collection of ancient planes begged, bor rowed or bought from anywhere and everywhere, some so inadequate that bombs were dropped by hand through toilet holes and gunners defended themselves by firing pistols at antiaircraft fire. The planes were flown by a motley crew of hired mercenaries...