SPAIN: Bulls

All the world loves a lover and all Spain loves a toreador, and what would be the use of toreadors if bulls could no longer be fought ? Yet, last week, the Iberian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came into being for the express purpose of warring on bullfighting. Paradox upon paradox, the Society was headed by no less a person than H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias, the Heir-Apparent, and T.R.H. The Infantas Beatrix and Maria Cristina.

To a paradox, there is always an explanation. Little more than 19 years...

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