When Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third Duke of Alba, was dying, the priest asked him if he had forgiven his enemies. The 16th-Century tyrant answered: "I have no enemies; I have hanged them all."
The present (17th) Duke of Alba has tried all his life to make friends instead of enemies, has largely succeeded. His name is Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart, and he is distantly related to Winston Churchill.* Last week the thin-faced, scholarly, impassive Duke made some more friends by resigning his post in London as Francisco Franco's Ambassador. The Franco regime, he said, was...
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