Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixteenth Century Spaniards, to whom the Carib Indians although tortured would not tell the source of their gold ornaments, imagined a place of gold, El Dorado, at the headwaters of the Orinoco River. No known Spaniard nor other white, until last month, ever reached the Orinoco's source. Then Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey of Tippecanoe City, Ohio* and Manhattan, his bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river...
...efforts of political propagandists to make the Spaniard feel like a citizen have failed. He feels like a man. ... It follows that the social structure of Spain is bound to be lax, like that of a body the several members of which are stronger than the force of cohesion which keeps them together. . . . No one who knows Spain can have failed to be struck by the impressive amount of individual effort lost in activities at cross purposes or, even worse, in vacua...
Soul of a Spaniard...
...your April 27 issue of TIME, p. 27, under heading of "Church and Land," you state that 99% of the people of Spain owe spiritual allegiance to ROME. This is in its essence incorrect. Spanish women are devout Catholics, and while it is true that the Spaniard lives against a background of eternity and his outlook is more religious than philosophic, spiritual allegiance is a patrimony of the soul, and the soul of a Spaniard belongs to God alone...
...believe I have conscientiously served my country. Such has been my intention. This moment I feel that I am more of a Spaniard than ever...