Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France, where smuggling was somewhat less effective, cigarets (worth $15 U.S. a carton) were an international language. One Salazar Teofilo, a young Spaniard, was arrested last week while doing a land-office cigaret business in the semidarkness of the Strasbourg-St. Denis méetro station. Police soon discovered that Teofilo did not speak one word of French. Through an interpreter they learned that he had entered France clandestinely from Spain five months ago, had grossed 60,000 francs ($500) a week on the magic of the only three words he knew outside his native Spanish: "Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields...
...Paris, about 20 years ago, three good friends recorded Schubert and Beethoven trios. Their performances are still definitive in chamber music. Pianist Alfred Cortot and Violinist Jacques Thibaud were France's two most distinguished instrumentalists. Spaniard Pablo Casals was the world's most famed cellist...
...reasonably well equipped. The families of every officer and soldier above the rank of private can purchase good food at government prices in the economatos or commissaries. Much of this promptly reaches the black market. No significant dissatisfaction with Franco is apparent in Spain's army. Remarked one Spaniard with a shrug: "Why should there be? They have never lived better in their lives...
...Franco, Franco, Franco!" The U.N. resolution, seized upon by Franco's expert propaganda machine, appealed to the xenophobia in every Spaniard. Many rallied to the Chief of State just to confound the foreigners who were trying to tell Spaniards what...
...herself in for it. The purely Spanish background of the Civil War has never been aired enough, though Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects in great detail the peculiar corruption and puzzlement of Spanish life between the Cuban (Spanish-American) and the Civil Wars...