Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promised the Spanish Ambassador, in the presence of Anthony Eden and Sir Samuel Hoare (now Viscount Templewood), that after the war Britain would help Spain to become a dominant power in the Mediterranean. But Britain had betrayed that promise. After his hour-and-a-half speech, Franco returned to Madrid's royal palace, through streets loud with posters proclaiming: "Down with England!" and "We have more guts than all U.N. put together." From, his balcony, Franco accepted the madrileños' dutiful homage...
...houses, the art of our furnishings, the clothes of our women, but our very spiritual life," wrote Father Benitez in the university's learned Review, "smells of France from every pore . . . Every year some 20,000 Argentines go through Paris, while only a hundred or so pass through Madrid. In spite of differences in language, we Argentines feel at home in Paris . . . The man born on the pampas thirsts for wide, liberal and generous horizons, and hates fanaticism as well as mental and spiritual intolerance. Is not France, which has allowed free play for the individual will, more Christian...
...Spanish were furious, all the more so because, when Evita Peron visited Madrid two years ago, Father Benitez was a much sought-out member of her party. Madrid's press fairly sizzled. Ya wrote: "It makes one wonder whether the priest's mother had a weakness for a Frenchman." Editorialized Bilbao's El Correo Espanol: "A bilious and ill-adapted clergyman...
...charging bull. Bull-like, the Torinos charged their way to the national championship four times, seldom failed to pay off in the totocalcio, the national soccer pool, where 22 million Italian fans each week place their bets. When the Torinos beat Spain's championship team in Madrid last March, a husky Parma worker cried out: "The Italian Republic's first international victory." The papers picked up the phrase and made it into a national slogan...
Only the day before, in an oldfashioned, gaudily wallpapered room in one of Madrid's shabbier neighborhoods, a soberly attentive Lepe had attended a reunion of 16 members of the Altoguirre and Jaudenes families (his real name is Alvarez Jaudenes). They had come from all over Spain, to claim title not to a castle in Spain, but to a castle in America. All were armed with "proof" that they were descendants of an 18th Century Spanish diplomat and his English wife who left a U.S. fortune estimated at $300 million-part of which included the land on which...