Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Islam, is the natural intermediary between the Middle East and the Western powers. Artajo told leaders that nationalist unrest is just playing into the hands of the Russians. Results so far are meager, but if Franco's missionaries win Moslem converts, the troubled West may be grateful to Madrid. Star of the traveling troupe: Franco's only daughter, pretty, strong-willed Marquesa Carmencita de Villaverde, who received medals, teetered over Jerusalem's cobblestones in high-heeled shoes, and inaugurated the first direct Beirut-Madrid phone linkup by chatting for 20 minutes with...
...Madrid, the Duchess of Valencia, shapely, 36-year-old monarchist critic of Franco, suggested that her country's diplomatic corps needs a woman's touch: "I would not be surprised if Stalin's trouble is the lack of feminine influence over him. I think a woman might be able to accomplish far more with him than the Western statesmen have been able to do. I wish I could be Spanish Ambassador in Moscow . . . If I were Spanish envoy in the United States, I would go fishing with President Truman...
Newspaperman to Bishop. The U.S. hears less of a more potent group of Spanish churchmen, whose chief spokesman is a more modern man, Don Angel Herrera, 65, Bishop of Málaga. Bishop Herrera, onetime Madrid newspaperman who was ordained at 53, consecrated bishop at 60, believes, like Cardinal Segura, that Spain should be submissive to the church. But he insists that the proper role of the church is to guide, not goad, the Spanish people. Spain's pressing problems, Bishop Herrera holds, are the poverty of her people and the general backwardness of a clergy which...
Among Herrera's opponents is Francisco Franco, whose regime he peppers with charges of social injustice and corruption. Herrera would like to see Franco succeeded by a constitutional monarch. Last year, when Herrera transferred his school to Madrid, Franco's friend, the Archbishop of Madrid, asked the Pope to have the bishop's activities confined to Málaga. The Vatican backed Herrera...
...contacting Spanish refugees. Later, in Portugal, he conferred with the pretender to the Spanish throne. Don Juan, and the exiled onetime leader of Spain's Catholic party, Gil Robles. Last month he was off to Rome, where the Pope received him twice. This week he was back in Madrid, busy as ever, holding conferences, discussing labor problems and teaching at his school. Church opinion holds that at the next Vatican consistory he is almost certain to receive the red hat of a cardinal. Beyond that, should the monarchy be restored and the Catholic party play a role similar...