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...congenial has been the position of apologist to the left for Avila Camacho's middle-of-the-road administration. By CTM's constitution he had to retire this year. For months it has been an open secret that his successor would be the more conservative Fidel Velazquez, who helped him found...
Preoccupied delegates voted at the convention's end to appoint Velazquez Secretary General. But their hearts were not in it. All were too busy digesting the knowledge that President Avila Camacho would stand no nonsense from labor, wondering about labor's next move...
...notable refugees. The last time he had seen them was outside the Prado Museum in Madrid two years ago and he was glad to see they had survived the long flight, first to Valencia, then to Barcelona, and now to France. They were paintings, masterpieces by Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo. taken from the National Museum and the homes of wealthy Madrilenos. Their value was incalculable...
...Self Portrait by Velazquez. One of the few that the Spanish genius had time to do in his eternal task of grinding out fresh likenesses of his master, horse-faced Philip IV of Spain...
Hispanic Museum contains valued Velazquez, Murillos, Zurbarans and a room full of gaudy murals by Joaquin Soralla, besides numerous sculptures by the Museum's patron, Mrs. Anna Hyatt (Archer M.) Huntington...