Word: madariaga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years before, had kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel and disgraceful business. Two new books may do something to destroy what Salvador de Madariaga has called "an article of faith" in the Anglo-Saxon world-"that Spain means cruelty and oppression...
...scholars and students, they are trying to shape a new kind of Bruges-one in which Napoleons will be impossible. The institution they belong to is the highly visionary College of Europe. The college was born at the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague. There, Salvador de Madariaga, onetime Spanish Ambassador to the U.S., suggested that a special school be set up for the study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye, seconded the motion, moved that the school be located in Bruges ("There is a European spirit in the very stones of this city...