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Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and the American President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Madrid in 1959.. The Pact of Madrid, signed on 23 September 1953 by Francoist Spain and the United States, was a significant effort to break the international isolation of Spain after World War II, together with the Concordat of 1953.
Franco had wanted a full concordat with royal rights of patronage, the right to choose bishops. The Vatican, uncertain of his future, compromised by offering him a less official "convention", signed on 7 June 1941, [ 3 ] and gave him only a limited role in choosing bishops.
A formal alliance commenced with the signing of the Pact of Madrid in 1953. Spain was then admitted to the United Nations in 1955. American poet James Wright wrote of Eisenhower's visit: "Franco stands in a shining circle of police. / His arms open in welcome. / He promises all dark things will be hunted down." [63]
Biblical Songs was written between 5 and 26 March 1894, while Dvořák was living in New York City. It has been suggested that he was prompted to write them by news of a death (of his father Frantisek, or of the composers Tchaikovsky or Gounod, or of the conductor Hans von Bülow); but there is no good evidence for that, and the most likely explanation is that he felt out of place in the ...
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The Treaty of Madrid (July 3, 1880) was an international treaty drafted during an international conference held in Madrid upon the request of Sultan Hassan I of Morocco. Items portrayed in this file depicts
The organization forms Bible listening groups, and says they developed more than 85,000 of these groups worldwide in 2009, varying from a few dozen individuals to groups of thousands. [10] The organization says they have now set up almost a million groups. As of January 2023, the ministry had produced audio Bible recordings in 1,759 languages. [11]
The Madrid Accords, [b] formally the Declaration of Principles on Western Sahara, was a treaty between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania setting out six principles which would end the Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara and arrange a temporary administration in the area pending a referendum.