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Continued Correspondent Haas: "This young lieutenant . . . whose name we shall not mention ... we shall call him Brownlee, was stationed at a little town called San Rafael del Norte, wherein the wife of Sandino* was employed by the Government as a telegraph operator in the hope that she might give some valuable information as to the whereabouts of her husband...
...last week Rafael Merry del Val stepped reluctantly out of the shadow of the retirement in which he has lived since the death of Pope Pius X, his beloved friend. He celebrated the silver jubilee of his elevation, at the hands of Pius X, to the cardinalate. He celebrated a high mass. He attended a banquet in his honor. Then once again he withdrew into the cloister of his memories...
...peasant was Merry del Val, but scion of an ancient Spanish family, grandee by birth and inclination, rich, sophisticated. He was the son of Don Rafael Marquis Merry del Val, secretary to the Spanish ambassador at London. His mother, the granddaughter of Brodie McGee Willcocks, onetime M. P., had mingled a strain of English blood with Merry del Val's paternal Spanish. Born in London, Merry del Val had been educated at Baylis House. He completed his theological studies in Rome and was ordained priest...
...worthy Don Rafael who beamingly despatched to newspapers what he said was a true and authoritative translation of a cable just received from Dictator Primo de Rivera himself. Text...
Masters of prose and politics despaired of bettering Don Rafael's expert sentence: ''Nothing has happened in Spain, and . . . nothing will happen, as there is lack of ambient...