DINNER STIRS MEMORIES OF CLOSE TIES WITH SPAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100100059-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: September 3, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By BETTY BEALE
Star Stati writer
elapsed since the discovery of
the New World when, on 4
September morning in the
year of grace 1565 the great
proud galleons of the Spanish
West Indies Fleet ... dropped
their anchors off the shores of
Florida,"
TENDED in this countyY that vcr, ac L.,V
aura s, hawevcr, practicai=
our history and descent were uest'~
solely English," said - Secr?e- "What's in on in the
tary Udall. "Being from the bTRI'"'~-ie asked..
Southwest, I ani one who easal].r.
understands that this is not ' y -
10 91 - oc1s if you don't know,
only wrong, but very badly 11 reji~_ ~yIay,' Tlo
wrong." hlipvs;>zlys;i>aIon.
The intrepid conquistadores. -Ie knows. Ho gets reports
left such a deep ,influence on t ?oun lout every 24 hotji
this country and its life, 'live ' nlghith%
in the southwest are as much laving retired from the
dcR tra.
next time he sees Sir Patrick cubed as t e as"gagaonce of c
Dean, he'll know why,
CPYRGHT
.Nnn
sta r _ . erode an a -e a per-
te: "For more than 250
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a
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cen cu uz
s
ary
Years we were Spanish, For e~au'se o this President
144 years we have been North anivTiat Tie s1ic~ tQma_r
American. It is quite clear, ? ?'".`
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h
rep
e
aborn w
o its Texas-
therefore, that we are more born and a fit~i cpusi,_Qibg
S p a n i s h than, anything. 'late Sam Rayburn.
else." What did LBJ sa3:.1;9_aiR1
Living proof of this perma-' "That I was th ,pnly man_in
neat tie was another guest ate the country ~y`lroog~oh~
dinner, the Count de Revillag-' '
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e re
ed with a twin-
So began the after dinner Igedo, 19th Hereditary Gover.,-Iil
remarks last evening of the nor of Florida. SECRETARY GENERAL,
Spanish ambassador who A direct da,cendant of; OF THE OAS Jose Mora,
carried his 70 guests back 400 Padi'o Menendez, de Aviles, recently back from Santo
years across the pages of founder of St. Augustine lie Domingo, paid the +iighest
history. like his male anteccdcni;;, is possible tribute to our OAS
In the red-draped and per'mitte'd to include this in Ambassador Ellsworth Bunk-
tapestried ballroom adorned 1-,is title-Count de Rovillaag-
with Spanish portraits of Igedo Y Adelantando Mayor de' er, who is still there trying to
another ena, it was not diffi-. la Florida. settle the torn country. He
cult to traverse the four His very lattractive English-. praised his tact, his infinite
centuries to the founding of.. peaking wife said her hus- patience, his knowledgeable.
the first European settlement and alas all the public rec- negotiating.
on our shores, rds about that .period of Undersecretay of State and
The reason for delving into 'lorida in his archives and 'Mrs. Tom Mann also were
the days when the Fountain of hat Ficrida now has copies of present-Tom introducing a
Youth did not mean the right hem all on microfilm. new fashion wrinkle-a black
vitamins, clever cosmetics It som;e:haw made those. dinner vest with his white
and vigorous exercise-was' ? It
seem so close it gave dinner jacket,
the presence of the gracious an cer:e feeling. Florida congressmen on
Spanish Minister of the Interi- 5 ,,, , A, t A 1 f1,,t,,,,LI,f-, hand included Claude Pepper,
,or and Mrs. Alonso Vega who l N , Director and 11r~ W.' Paul Rogers, Charles Bennet
will lead a delegation to the -~ --}
quadricentennial celebration I` `i -~ ere_a.f tllc c annc> and William Cramer.
he ac,m~ir-al saying that ' Augustine Sunday tlat it, The ambassadors of Greece
in
St,
through Wednesday. ]~L5 yeark t_ make an~,ce' Uruguay, Argentina`and Chile
The two men who will head tellr~erice a;ent Pezll J5 and their wives, Elizabeth and
the American del cars old 110 CIA today has; Leslie Carpe liter, Perle
the celebration, Secretary of eidated' men and the Mesta, former Ambassador to
Interior Udall and Sen. HoI- xpertzsc t}rat Ina