Word: palencia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lace, formerly thought to have been unknown before the 16th Century, was found in the tombs, as was cloth from China. Until the opening of the Las Huelgas sarcophagi, Spanish historians had not been absolutely sure whether Enrique I of Castile died from a blow on the head at Palencia in 1217, or from natural causes. Enrique's skull, found in the tomb, confirmed the theory of violent death; it also showed what archeologists interpreted as advanced techniques of trepanation, demonstrating a medieval knowledge of surgery hitherto unsuspected...
...that fat Francisco Franco's clock is close to striking twelve, on the nose of the news comes Isabel de Palencia's account of the men & women who ran away to fight another day for freedom. Smouldering Freedom, is partly an updating of her own earlier autobiography (I Must Have Liberty), partly a picture of Mexico's "Pilgrim Spain" of Republican exiles...
Mexican Refuge. Author de Palencia, born in Malaga of a Spanish father and a Scottish mother, has long interpreted Spain and its politics to the outside world. Madrid correspondent for several London papers and lecturer in both Britain and the U.S., author of two novels and a book on child psychology, she also served as Spanish delegate to the ILO and to the League of Nations...
When the civil war broke out in 1936, energetic Señora de Palencia was her country's Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Finland - the first woman ever to represent Spain abroad. After the final, desperate retreat, she and her family went to Mexico, whose Government had extended an open-house invitation to all Spanish refugees...
Living Spirit. In other Latin American countries - Cuba, Chile, Colombia, and even Argentina - smaller colonies worked hard "keeping alive the spirit of Republican Spain." And in Russia thousands of Spanish children were housed and educated. Socialist-minded Diplomat de Palencia does not dwell on the political activities of the Republic's refugees, does her best to lay the bogey of Communism that has so damaged the Loyalist cause in America. But her book leaves no doubt that doctrinal disputes mean far less to her than does a united front to carry the smouldering torch of freedom back to Spain...