Word: madariaga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffer. Sooner or later, the rest of the world realized that Spain had been victimized, but it was slower in learning how Spain had got herself in for it. The purely Spanish background of the Civil War has never been aired enough, though Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects in great detail the peculiar corruption and puzzlement of Spanish life between the Cuban (Spanish-American) and the Civil Wars...
...flown, its plot too intricate and too neat, to satisfy the exacting requirements of serious literature. But, it is among the best popular fictional accounts of the conquistadores that has appeared (less burdened with history than Edward Stucken's The Great White Gods), less exotic than Salvador de Madariaga's The Heart of Jade. As good reading, certain to take the minds of thousands of readers off their troubles for tens of thousands of hours, Captain from Castile is first rate...
This is reason enough, thinks Author Morison, to believe that Columbus was not a Spaniard or a Portuguese (both na tions claim him as a native son). Salvador de Madariaga's recent ingenious attempt to prove that Columbus was an unconverted Jew is dismissed as "a significant pattern of hypotheses and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact." Professor Morison also smiles wanly at stories like Columbus and the egg.* Nor, says he, did Isabella pawn her jewels to outfit Columbus' ships. She only said she would if it was necessary; it wasn...
Meanwhile in London, mercurial Delegate de Madariaga defended Romains for past Nazi contacts, gurgled from the bottom of his hot bath: "After all Stalin had some contacts with the Nazis...
...accuse Biographer de Madariaga of anti-Semitism would perhaps be easy-if it were not equally possible to call him pro-Semitic. His Columbus, opaque to biographers for over 400 years, is a preincarnation of Don Quixote, an epic figure of epic contradictions, sailing "across a sea of errors to the shore of truth." Even de Madariaga does not think his own view is the one & only. So he says, (quoting an old Spanish proverb): "Truth marries...