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...words too high flown, too packed with historical and literary allusions to be understood by a U. S. audience, Don Jose spoke High Treason as plainly as a Spaniard who is a gentleman (and therefore addicted to splendid nebulosity...
...month prior this main trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico had been slammed closed because Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had threatened to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, one-time President of Mexico, on an old murder conspiracy charge. Born a Spaniard, Vails had once been a Mexican officeholder under Diaz. Naturalized a U. S. citizen after Diaz's fall, he flaunted his political hostility to the new Mexican regime by threatening its still-strongest figure...
...General, they sufficiently imply his support of the revolution, and the subsequent seemingly nonsensical allusion to a house of ill-fame may be considered a Spanish masterpiece. It is another way of saying: "I will not be taken for a lecherous old swine like Primo de Rivera." For any Spaniard would recognize the allusion to an occasion when the Chief of Police of Madrid personally conducted a raid on a celebrated bawdy house, thundered on the door, and then slunk away as the proprietor whispered through the chink, "I can't let you in, because Primo is already here...
...Anglo-Saxon ever really understands what a Spaniard means by his honor. It has little or nothing to do with honesty- a fact which often causes painful misunderstanding. Last week the millions of Spanish-blooded folk who live outside of Spain were thrilled to the marrow by a lengthy and ornate oration, the text of which had been smuggled past Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera's censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which...
...nice old gentleman with profuse white whiskers went out for a walk in Madrid last week accompanied by his daughters. Soon roisterous students appeared, shouting words for which many a Spaniard has been shot...