"If maps were shaded like balance sheets, the bottom part of mainland Europe would be deepest red. Italy, Spain and Po…"

"The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are."

"I remember vividly in 1974 being in the mass of people, descending the streets in my native Lisbon, in Portugal, cele…"

"At one time Spain was one of the world's great powers, although under the leadership of General Francisco Franco (157…"

"And towering above each town, generally built on a height commanding it, stood the church, its finger pointed to heav…"

"The Spaniard is inherently nationalistic; but no more so than other national groups. Most people, trained from birth …"

"There was always, therefore, a certain amount of friction between the Americans and the Spanish, which would seem to …"

"Spain, since the loss of its Catholic faith, has been above everything else a country in search of an ideology."

"Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away."

"Wee may say of him, as of the Spaniard, Hee is a bad Servant, but a worse Maister."