Word: hispanos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Severe damage to two of the largest depots-Méaulte and Romilly-sur-Seine; heavy damage to repair shops at Antwerp, Brussels, Le Bourget, Meulan-les-Mureaux, Nantes; considerable damage to the Gnôme-et-Rhône plant at Le Mans; light damage to Paris' Hispano-Suiza plant, destruction to Paris' Caudron Renault shop; Villacoublay was marked "most severe...
...Argentina's 1,000,000 Spaniards are knit together by several score fraternal groups and by the Catholic Church, many of whose dignitaries are pro-Fascist Italians and Spaniards. Principal coordinator for Fascist propaganda and Hispanidad organizations is the "Com-ision Organizadora del Primer Congreso de la Cultura Hispano-Americana," all of whose functionaries are well-known authoritarians, admirers of the "New Order" in Europe...
...controlled radio stations which regularly transmit Hispanidad propaganda under titles like "La Vos de Espana," "Espana de Hoy." Spanish films bring Hispanidad to the attention of the moviegoing masses; an increasing number of Spanish dancers, singers, artists stream to Buenos Aires to remind Argentines of the strong ties of Hispano-American culture...
...Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guiñazú; onetime Argentine Ambassador to Spain Daniel Garcia Mansilla (the presiding dignitary); the Most Rev. Roberto José Tavella, Archbishop of Salta; and Spanish Ambassador to Argentina, Admiral Antonio Magaz y Pers, Marquis of Magaz. They convened as the first Congress of Hispano-American Culture...
...would strike again, and they did-in a small daylight raid on a truck factory at Poissy, ten miles from Paris. Plenty of other targets in the Paris factory belt waited their turn. The Farman and Salmson works had been hit-but the Citroën. Peugeot, Delahaye and Hispano-Suiza works, also humming away on war materials for Germany, had not. Near Paris, French optical firms are making tank periscopes, range finders, telescopic gun sights and other fire-control equipment for the Germans. At Levallois-Perret and La Courneuve, French armorers are making 25-and 47-mm. guns...