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...reign in Mexico City. Titian-haired Luz del Carmen ("Moy") Otero rode into the bullfight ring at the head of a 16-car cavalcade, presided at horse races, and went to a ball every night. Moy had a fine time and so did her father, suave General Ignacio Otero, commandant of the First Military Zone. Moy owed it all to Daddy...
Wherever the Spanish Jews went, they formed proud groups among their fellow Jews. They lived in many countries, mixed with many stocks, but they never lost their pride in their Spanish heritage. Slowly a trickle of their descendants returned to the home of their ancestors. In 1917, one Ignacio Bauer opened Madrid's first synagogue since the expulsion. During the Spanish civil war, it was closed down once more and looted by the Communists. But Bauer managed to save the Torah (sacred book), and the Franciscan nuns of Murcia hid it in the crypt of their convent. Under...
Last fall, Moise Lawenda, a Spanish Jew from Poland appeared on the scene. He had been repatriated with 365 other Spanish Jews from a Nazi concentration camp; his entire family of 30 had perished. He met secretly with Ignacio Bauer and one Joseph Cuby, a British Jew from Gibraltar. He persuaded them that the time was ripe to reopen a synagogue in Spain...
...Ignacio de la Torre, whose family once owned much of the state of Morelos, is sometimes regarded by the oldtimers as false to his class. After flying for France in World War I, he came home, served as secretary to revolutionary President Alvaro Obregon, became one of Mexico's best engineers. Now he often gives parties on the family's half-ruined hacienda at Yautepec. and sometimes makes old family friends squirm by assuring them that Mexico's progress began when the great haciendas were destroyed...
Diego Rivera was in hot water again last week. His mural in Mexico City's Del Prado Hotel (TIME, Oct. 6) had suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...