Word: julys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Genial, spherical, Honduran Ambassador Julián Cáceres met another Latin American diplomat at a Washington reception. "I say, Caceres," said the friend, "TIME reports the Honduran opposition is using 'Pinos de Honduras' for a slogan, and your President of Congress maintains that a revolutionary ought to be hanged from each pine. What luck you aren't a revolutionary. The pine would surely break...
...Condemned to death after being returned from France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...