Word: iberians
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...unions for Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera in the '20s. In Argentina, where he took out citizenship papers in 1930, chubby Jose Figuerola kept up the good work as Juan Perón's Man Friday and expert on labor matters. Argentines now saw -his fine Iberian hand in almost every paragraph of the President's new plan...
...just doesn't like the taste of the stuff.) Occasion: the monthly luncheon of her Spanish teacher's class. Mrs. Truman, who turned up in a hat to remember (see cut), was on a spot: no water was served with the meal, which was so spicily Iberian that Senator Homer Ferguson's wife Myrtle was moved to report: "Now I know where the flamethrowers come from...
...story, such as it is, is concerned with Pirate Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid), an ex-Dutch sea captain, fat, dastardly Spanish Governor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) and aristocratic Francisca (Maureen O'Hara). There is all sorts of high-spirited romancing, pirate treachery, Iberian cruelty and slashing sword play before Van Horn and Francisca finally sail away together into an almost overpoweringly golden sunrise...
Britain's busy Gibraltar, overlooking the Mediterranean gateway. The Axis consulates, Madrid said, had been "closed and sealed." Franco recently agreed to cut his country's shipment of wolfram (for steel alloys) to Germany. But he may ship as much as ever to Spain's little Iberian neighbor Portugal, which still supplies wolfram and other essential materials to Germany...
...people who voted in the Popular Front Government of 1936, who fought for their Republic, and lost. They are dispersed and disfranchised; thousands of them are imprisoned and some Madrid reports insist that executions are still going on. Politically the group stretches all the way from Basque Catholics to Iberian Anarchists: the regime lumps them together as "reds." All of them hate Franco to death. Many, surprisingly, would play ball with the monarchists, on the theory that with Franco out of the way, it would be possible to send the King packing and restore the Republic...