Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Official slogan of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's adherents during Spain's recent war was Una, Grande, Libre ("One, Great, Free"), a slogan borrowed from the great Ferdinand and Isabella. Last week Generalissimo Franco held his thrice-postponed Madrid victory parade and showed the world that Spain was great-at least in arms and men-but not necessarily "one" or "free...
...skeptical at the parade might well have wondered how "free" Spain was when they saw 10,000 Italian troops, led by the veteran General Gastone Gambara, and 5,000 of the German Condor Legion pass by.* And one look at El Caudillo's uniform would tell them that Spain was still far from "one." It was a "compromise" uniform. On his head was the red boina (beret) worn by the conservative, monarchy-loving Carlists. Under his Army campaign blouse was the blue shirt of the Falangists, or Spanish Fascists, deadly political enemies of the Carlists...
...under a white silk canopy held up by six priests. Before the high altar on which was placed a crucifix commemorating the great Hispano-Venetian naval victory at Lepanto in the 16th Century, the General surrendered his sword to Isidoro Cardinal Goma y Tomás, Catholic Primate of Spain, gave thanks for his victory "over the enemies of truth...
Three days of ceremonial ended when El Caudillo motored 30 miles west of Madrid to the vast and gloomy Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial. There, in a large hall adjoining what were once the monastery's royal apartments, Generalissimo Franco received the diplomatic corps. Thus ceremonially ended Spain's third and bloodiest civil war of modern times...
...Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ex-Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. For them and for New York World's Fair visitors until October 1, the new Museum was decked out with a big, cream-of-the-crop exhibition of "Art in Our Time" paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, photography, industrial art, and a historical cycle of movies from...