Word: mariquita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war Franco suppressed the books of Ramon del Valle-Inclán. But almost simultaneously an edition of his works was brought out by an Argentine publisher, sold heavily throughout South America. Royalties were sent to the author's widow and children. Tuberculous Mariquita used hers to enter a sanatorium near Molinari in the Argentine uplands...
...arrival of the royalties in Spain reminded Mariquita's mother of the girl's existence. She sued to get Mariquita and Mariquita's royalties back to Spain, although there the invalid girl would certainly have faced a concentration camp or worse. Basis of the suit was a Spanish law that parents have custody of their children until they are of age (23 in Spain...
Last July Mariquita was rushed from her sanatorium to the Spanish steamship Monte Albertia in Buenos Aires harbor. The sisters of the sanatorium tipped off Buenos Aires newsmen. Theiraccounts of the case stirred up local lawyers, who got the ship's surgeon to examine Mariquita. He testified that she had a high fever, might not survive the voyage. For this he was arrested by the Spanish captain and thrown in the brig...
Next day a Buenos Aires court issued a writ of habeas corpus for Mariquita. She left the ship (see cut, p. 27), telling news men in a thin, frightened voice: "They won't succeed. . . . Somehow I'll find a way to escape if they put me on board again by force...
...seemed as if the threat of Spain, at least, might be over. And Mariquita might get some of the rest that tuberculosis demands...