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...Madrid during a sweltering summer Spaniards dodge fights. The Foreign Office referred Ambassador Bowers to the War Office, remarking that so much as to threaten a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil is a serious military crime. The War Office balked Mr. Bowers by stating that War Minister Manuel Azana (who is also Premier of Spain) was on vacation, and that that was that. In Washington, after receiving cabled reports, U. S. Acting Secretary of State William Phillips called in Spanish Ambassador Juan Francisco de Cardenas, asked him pleasantly to bring pressure for the five's release...
...case. He knew well his duty to Mallorcan prejudice, by which U. S. tourists are rated "too fresh," U. S. women "prostitutes" because they drink and wear beach pajamas in public. He knew what U. S. tourists were threatening, knew also his duty to the Spanish Guardia Civil. "There must be a trial, even if it means an American boycott of Mallorca," cried Judge Vidal, "and I cannot grant bail...
...doorman and a drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling. He was a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil, crack police corps on whose goodwill largely depends the survival of the Spanish Republic. The Guardia Civil trains its picked men to have an exaggerated sense of personal dignity, backs them up in it. The Spanish Government backs the Guardia Civil. But to the merrymakers...
Unless his anti-Tammany ticket was accepted "as is," swore Mr. La Guardia. he would take the field himself. In 1929, as a fusion nominee, he gave glib little "Jimmy" Walker an embarrassing time, charging to Tammany most of the scandals later revealed in the Seabury investigation. But his "radicalism" lost him most of the Republican silk-stocking vote...
...Smith promptly replied to the La Guardia threat: "I am not a candidate. ... I shall not accept any nomination. . . . There is no compulsion or persuasion that can affect my decision. It is final...