Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Added meetings with Tunisia's President Bourguiba, the West's warmest friend in North Africa, and Spain's Generalissimo Franco to his tightly scheduled, 20,000-mile grand tour (TIME, Nov. 16); the President will invite Bourguiba aboard the cruiser Des Moines for an afternoon's conversation in the Bay of Tunis, will visit Franco on an overnight stop in Madrid while flying home from Paris...
...under the pressure of events. But despite these complacent prophecies, the evidence indicates that the alliance of the six continental nations has momentum on its side. Belgium, with the support of France, is now proposing that the Common Market mechanism be broadened to include political consultation. Greece, Turkey and Spain are clamoring to join the Common Market. As a pallid substitute of the Free Trade Area that it once demanded, Britain is forming its own economic league, an Outer Seven, bringing Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal into a loose tariff agreement. But the British, who privately admit that...
...stubborn idealist who was often destitute and at least once excommunicated, Miguel de Cervantes was in and out of jail as he worked on Spain's greatest classic, Don Quixote, published in 1605. Like his creator, Don Quixote was the object of ridicule. He charged giants that turned out to be windmills, fought armies that were flocks of sheep, worshiped the purity of a peasant wench who was gifted at salting pork. But in humanism's world of reason, Don Quixote's crime was not his madness but his faith. So is it in today...
...China's aggression in Tibet, and all nine nays were Communist. Red China thus stood roundly condemned before the world for its actions. But significantly, 26 nations abstained on the resolution. Among the abstainers, besides India, were such decidedly anti-Communist nations as France, Britain, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon explained that his country has misgivings about Tibet's legal status, and therefore the U.N.'s right to intervene; he wants no embarrassing precedents set. On similar grounds, France regards Algeria and India considers Kashmir an internal affair. Krishna Menon expressed...
...cash, Tangier's wily Indian merchants could buy in the world's cheapest markets, reexport to the most expensive. Sometimes the transactions were legal, often they were not. In recent years the smugglers alone have been netting about $100 million in sales. Biggest customer: Franco's Spain, whose fumbling economy is supplied with vital products by Tangier's smugglers...