Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become part of France. When France lost Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1871, tens of thousands of Alsatians who were unwilling to become German citizens settled in Algeria. They were followed over the years by a steady trickle of impoverished French and Corsican peasants and by the dispossessed of Spain, Italy and Malta. Today, one Algerian in ten-some 1,060,000 people-is of European ancestry, though perhaps only a third of those who call themselves French are, in fact, of French descent...
...just 22 years since he took over as the Caudillo of Spain, and Francisco Franco, 65, is not the sort to let an anniversary pass unnoticed. Last week, at the "suggestion" of the government, Madrid's newspapers dutifully listed Franco's accomplishments (e.g., no fewer than 16 towns now bear the name Franco). "The moral qualities of Francisco Franco as a ruler," said Arriba, "are infinitely superior to those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy...
...Saragossa, Spain, saturnine Cinemactor George Sanders, 52, onetime husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said that he and Old Friend Benita Hume Colman, 51, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman, would be wed "in about six months." Acknowledged his intended: "I'm enchanted with the whole thing, but there is no hurry about...
...material of his own and edited the best into comprehensible form. Columbia so far has issued 16 remarkable annotated albums (covering almost as many areas) in a projected 30-to 40-album series, and Westminster this month releases the sixth of a scheduled eleven albums of Lomax material from Spain alone...
...characters themselves, however, are quite faithful to the book. Gary Cooper is taciturn and determined as the Montana college professor who comes to Spain to dynamite a bridge for the faltering Republic. Miss Bergman is tender and convincing as the young camp girl, though she seemed a bit too well-scrubbed and Nordic for the Spanish locale...