Word: facto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope last week was not represented by an official delegate in Rightist Spain, though he had given de facto recognition to the Salamanca Government by accepting the credentials of General Franco's Charge d'Affaires to the Vatican (TIME, Sept...
...Switzerland, Albania, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala it has been for almost a year an autonomous state. Significantly, the Vatican, too-which, whatever else may be said, works as hard over its diplomacy as any first class power-chose the day after Santander's fall to extend de facto recognition. Having cooled his heels in Rome for three months. Pablo de Churruca, Marques de Aycimena, accredited Chargé d'Affaires to the Lateran Palace from General Franco's Government, was summoned by the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, who graciously, if belatedly, accepted his credentials...
...State which seven others and the Vatican (de facto) recognize as the newest of the Earth's States is, on the whole, naturally wealthier than the State it must conquer to survive. Leftist Spain has the mercury mines of Almaden. But these are more than matched by Rightist Spain's coal, iron, copper. The country's olive orchards, cork forests, vineyards are about evenly split between the two warring groups. The Leftists control the orange groves in the eastern province of Valencia, and thus the principal Spanish export in normal times. But the Rightists own Spain...
...Miles & $50,000,000. Entirely unmentioned in Cairo dispatches last week was the de facto ruler of Egypt, moose-tall and tolerant Sir Miles Lampson. He used to be the British High Commissioner in Cairo, became the British Ambassador as soon as Egypt and England set up their recent "alliance." Sir Miles is a grand surviving figure in the Victorian tradition of Bearing the White Man's Burden, spreading the Pax Britannica and generally wiping the noses of people like the Egyptians. Almost nobody disputes that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised...
Ruled Justice Clauson: "Last December the British Government recognized the Italian Government as in fact the Government of the area then under Italian control. The effect of Great Britain's de facto recognition is that I am bound to treat the acts of the Government which was so recognized as acts which cannot be impugned.'' Referring to the decree signed by the Negus at Bath: "I cannot imagine any ground on which it could seriously be argued that I could pay any attention...