Word: merito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Safe from possible front line duty to attend the prisoner as his lawyer was Lieutenant the Marques del Merito, a grandee of Spain, whose wife is a daughter of the Tin-King Bolivian Minister to Paris. Socialite Captain Espinosa acted as prosecutor. As judges, a Colonel Frederico Acosta and four captains sat behind their swords at a long table: Defendant Dahl wore a new suit for the occasion, brought to him by his attorney's Bolivian wife. Testimony of the defense centred on the fact that Flyer Dahl believed that he was to be merely an instructor...