Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrid, the grandees conducted a kind of dignified sit-down strike against "foreigners of dubious origin." So far, they had signed the patents of only two claimants. Intoned the committee's secretary, the Marqués de Ortasona: "What the king has given, and has been lost, can only be restored by a king." Added another grandee: "We are in no hurry. Perhaps if we slow down enough, the patents will bear the signature of a king and not of a commoner who happens to be chief of state...
Died. Alejandro Lerroux, 85, five times Radical Party Premier of turbulent Republican Spain;* and lifelong antimonarchist; in Madrid, where he returned under Franco amnesty...
...Second Spanish Republic lasted from April 1931 (abdication of King Alfonso XIII), until March 28, 1939 (surrender of Madrid to General Franco...
...Madrid radio decided that there was something sinister about Eleanor Roosevelt (see PRESS). Spluttered Madrid: What about the great influence of the "personal whims of the famous lady? . . . Is it a case of feminine dictatorship? . . . Is she the tool of a mysterious international power that gives orders and looks out for its own interests? . . . Is Mrs. Roosevelt a sort of Stalin in petticoats...
...International Brigade. Perhaps it was his near-genius for inconspicuousness that made Foote just the man for the Russians. When British Communists recommended him for a dangerous "assignment" on the Continent, he jumped at the chance, entered the Red army intelligence six months before the fall of Madrid. He became a cog in an espionage network that Fed information directly into Red army headquarters in Moscow. Except for an interval in a Swiss jail, he worked for the Russians until 1947. But long before that time Foote's disillusionment...