Word: madariaga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salvador de Madariaga, a small Basque with a high domelike forehead, piercing beady eyes, and a Scotch wife bigger than he is, landed from the Mauretania last week and proceeded to Washington to present his credentials as the Spanish Republic's first Ambassador to the U. S. His coming increases the literary luminosity of the Washington diplomatic corps about 50%. Though his pen may not have the surpassing grace of French Poet-Ambassador Paul Claudel, Ambassador Madariaga is a writer of first rank, a keen political commentator...
...intimate friends in Spain's Republican Cabinet, but otherwise Ambassador de Madariaga is better known in Washington than in Madrid (45% of all Spaniards over ten years old are illiterate). Born in Corunna 44 years ago, his early career was as an official of the Spanish railroads. Since 1916 he has lived almost continuously abroad, first as a London correspondent, then as a member of the League of Nations Secretariat (Chief of the Disarmament Section), then as professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford. Another reason for the vagueness with which most Madrilenos react to the name of de Madariaga...
Last year his book Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards was awarded a prize by the weekly Europe Nouvelle as the best political book of the year. Random de Madariaga observations...
...Ambassador de Madariaga counts among his intimate friends Andres Segovia, the concert guitarist, and Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Hindu rebutter to Mother India. He is, moreover, one of those writers who has enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas William Lament...