Word: hern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hernández, courtly, old-line army officer who looks like Charles the Fifth, conducts the siege of the Alcázar, treats his enemies chivalrously, is executed when Toledo is captured. On a ridge outside the city the prisoners are shot, three at a time, somersaulting backwards into a ditch, Hernández reflecting in a pain-filled, embarrassed silence that they line up stiffly like people having their pictures taken...
Some characters are called by their real names. Puig was a Barcelona anarchist killed early in the Civil War; Captain Hernández was actually in command at Toledo. Others are thinly disguised: Abel Guidez is called Gardet in the novel; Ramón Sender, leading Spanish novelist, is the original of Manuel...
...state of Manchukuo is tiny, coffee-producing El Salvador. Last week, in belated appreciation of El Salvador's gesture, made in March 1934 owl-eyed, thick-lipped Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Teh was graciously pleased to decorate El Salvador's Strong Man, swart, curly-haired President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Araujo and the Salvadorean Consul General in Tokyo, León Siguenza...
...forces, having reached the Mediterranean, widened the breach between the two parts of Leftist territory from 25 to 50 miles last week. To bolster the morale of his troops against advancing Rightists, General José Miaja, dictator of Southern Leftist Spain, confirmed the appointment of Jesús Hernández, former Communist Minister of Education and Health, as Political War Commissar of Miaja's five armies...
...south) Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation, is a one-crop country (coffee). In its capital, San Salvador, flourish 100,000 and the President, His Excellency General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez...