Word: eulalia
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Hustled to a base hospital at Santa Eulalia and then to Saragossa beside his wounded friends, it was found that Correspondent Neil, who nearly died of a chest hemorrhage in Ethiopia was suffering from 34 shrapnel wounds. A Catholic priest gave his blood for a transfusion during the night and none other than El Caudillo Franco took time off from the greatest battle of his life to telephone about his condition. But gangrene had set in. Not realizing the seriousness of his wounds, worrying about his typewriter and still hoping for a glass of beer on the morrow, Eddie Neil...
Discovered by U. S. escapists in the late great Depression, the Balearics seemed almost too good to be true. Escapist Elliot Paul found on Iviza, smaller and less-known than Majorca, just the place he was looking for. In a village called Santa Eulalia he spent five years off & on, went back for his last visit in July 1936, few days before civil war cut Iviza off from the world. In The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Author Paul says hail & farewell to Santa Eulalia with heartfelt emotion, little knowing that Iviza would be on all front pages...
First part of his book shows Santa Eulalia as it was: a pleasant little town of 3,000 individuals, most of whom Paul knew, most of whom he liked. In Spanish politics, Paul's sympathies were all to the Left, but he had good friends on the Right as well. He mourns equally over them all: "In all Iviza's 6,000 years the watchers on her hills saw no stranger sights than I did, nothing more unreal, more unexpected. . . . Nineteen thirty-six, take your place in the corridor of bloody years! Be proud...
...thing that happened was martial law, declared by Iviza's fascist military commandant. Then there were raids, arrests of those who owned radios; then no more news from anywhere. As suspense deepened, rumors spread, money stopped circulating, two old people killed themselves. A plane appeared, flew over Santa Eulalia, was shot at by fascist soldiers. Few days later, another plane flew over. This one dropped leaflets which said that Government forces were coming to retake the island...
Habsburg Archdukes crowded the aisles. Onetime King Alfonso of Spain and his venerable aunt the Infanta Eulalia were on hand as were the Wittelsbach Princes from Bavaria, the Princess Marie Pia of Orléans and a parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown...