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...diplomatically ungodly hour of 8 a.m. the unrecognized Argentine Minister in Washington, Rodolfo Garcia Arias, called at the Chilean Chancellory. The sleepy mayordomo let him in, telephoned Ambassador Marcial Mora at his home. The Ambassador was shaving, but he hurried downtown without breakfast, to receive with reluctant hands a diplomatic hot potato: a memorandum from the Argentine Government for delivery to the Government of the U.S. It announced that Argentina had asked the Pan American Union to call a full-dress conference of Foreign Ministers to consider the Argentine case...
Franco himself took over the post of chief of the Falange, naming as the Party's vice president Manuel Mora Figueroa, an aggressive Falangist just returned from service with Spain's Blue Division fighting Russia. Without a quiver of regret for Serrano, the Falange newspaper Arriba declared: "Our internal policy follows its unmistakable line and our foreign policy is sealed with blood and reaffirmed in silent heroisms...
Watching him buttle, John Barrymore once said: "You played that as if you came from a long line of butlers." Died. Francis Luis Mora, 65, Uru guayan-born U. S. artist, member of the National Academy, whose portrait of War ren G. Harding hangs in the White House ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933 he painted himself and wife as he imagined they would look in 1953, predicted an American Renaissance in that year...
...PLACE OF SPLENDOR-Constancia de la Mora-Harcourt, Brace...
Constancia de la Mora's story of her life could serve, if one were needed, or if all others were destroyed, as a history of Spain in the 20th Century...