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...been urging Franco Spain to show greater religious tolerance to its 20,000 Protestants. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, a man of monolithic opinions who dislikes Franco, the U.S. and Protestantism, told his countrymen this week that toleration would never do. Wrote Cardinal Segura in a pastoral letter...
...sublieutenant under Pancho Villa in 1913, Pedro Gomez took slugs in his stomach and in one leg, was left to die after a skirmish in which government forces routed Villa. Before he could die however, he was jerked to his feet in front of a firing squad. The bullets which crashed into his chest merely knocked him down. A sergeant's coup de grace only nicked his ear. The sergeant's cursing captain seized the pistol and sent a .38 bullet into Gomez' head at the hairline-but late that night Gomez still lived...
Friends found him and carried him back to Villa's headquarters, where a carpenter made a blue cross to put on his grave when he died. Pancho Villa himself told the painter that the lettering on the cross should read, "Lieut. Colonel Pedro Gomez." Two weeks later, far from dead and hoping to see his sweetheart, Gomez was railroading in a gondola car with some of Villa's dynamiters. One of them accidentally touched off a fuse and the car blew up. The only survivor: Gomez...
Just before World War I, Pedro Albizu Campos, a Puerto Rican mulatto, was a quiet, intelligent student at Harvard and a patriotic lieutenant in the R.O.T.C. The son of a wealthy Spanish sugar merchant and his Negro mistress, he was proud of his Spanish blood. But when the U.S. Army assigned him to a Negro regiment, it was a shock to Albizu that twisted his whole life. Back in Puerto Rico in 1921, he began to build a political career based on two ideas: hatred of the U.S. and national independence for Puerto Rico...
Gold Net. The man behind Macao's prosperity is a shrewd, wiry Portuguese-Dutch-Malay named Pedro J. Lobo, who runs Asia's largest gold market in Macao and in fact runs Macao also. Lobo lives well, and in his spare time composes music (including an operetta called Cruel Separation). Lobo's title is economic director of the colony. On each ounce of gold, most of which arrives on Catalina flying boats owned by Lobo, he levies two taxes: an official one of 35? for the Macao treasury, another of $2.10 for himself. This has netted Lobo...