Evening star., 1961-09-24
Spanish Lawyer
New at the II. N.
By SELWA ROOSEVELT
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
The United Nations roster
of delegates reads like an
International who's Who"
and among the many note
worthy new names this year
is that of Mr.. Gregorio Ma
ramon, one of the three-man
delegation from Spain.
Mr.. Maranon, who bears a
name renowned in Spain and
the Spanish-speaking world.
is the son of the late DR..
Gregorio Maranon Che died
last spring., who was one
of Spain's greatest doctors OF
medicine, one of her most
widely read historians and
one of the intellectual giants
of the liberal movement in
Spain under the republic.
Mr.. Maranon himself is a
noted lawyer IN Madrid and
a member of the Spanish
Parliament.
This is my second trip to
the States within the past
three years, but my great
sadness is that I could not
have come to your country
at a younger age" he COM
mented in perfect English
after his arrival.
Mr.. Maranon is only in his
40s, but apparently this does
not seem sufficiently young
to him.
On Youthful Travel
IT would have liked to have
Travelled to America at a
much younger age to learn
what the world means and
really is today.
This is the advice I give
my teen-age sons and my
younger friends: Go to the
United States and learn what
is to be the future of OcCi-
dental life"
On his mission to the
United Nations, Mr.. Maranon
felt he was not yet in a
position to comment.
Il would only say that it
is a moment of enormous
suspense for me. I arrive
for the first time at the
= United Nations at the most
critical moment of its hfe-a
moment which could mean
its funeral or its rebirth to
become once and for all the
authentic guarantor of
peace"
But" he added with a
twinkle in his dark eyes, "I
am a novice and here to
learn, not to pontificate."
Novice though he may de-
scribe himself, Mr.. Maranon
is known in Madrid as a keen
student of foreign affairs and
especially of Spanish-Amer-
lean relations.
Miniature U. N.
His education began in the
classroom of his own home,
for the Maranon home in
Madrid was, during the past
century, like a miniature
United Nations.
For decades no scholar, no
intellectual, no person of
note from any corner of the
globe would consider his visit
to Spain complete without
calling at the mecca of
Spanish intellectual thought.
And many Americans, as
well as travellers from the
rest of the world, have made
their pilgrimage to the
Maranon's famous "cigarral"
Country home) in Toledo,
near Madrid.
There, Mr.. Maranon's
father, who was a prac-
ticing physician until his
death and a prodigious au-
thor of medical tracts as well
as dozens of books about
such diverse subjects as the
painter Ell Greco and the
Roman Emperor TiberiuS
(the latter has been trans
lated into EngliSh), received
his guests in a relaxed, in
formal atmosphere.
International Thought
And so the young son and
namesake grew up hearing
and speaking French and
English as we'll as his Span
ish and surrounded by all
currents of international
thought. He was a brilliant
student at the University Of
Madrid and later continued
his international law studies
in London and at the Sor-
bonne.
His career was momentarlly
interrupted by the Spanish
Civil War in which he fought
with the Franco forces for
three years at the front and
then became an undersecre-
tary of the government.
In his career as a lawyer
he represents such companies
as Coca Cola, the Motion Pic
ture Association and Ohio
Oil. He is a member of the
board of the American Cham
ber of Commerce of Madrid
and also secretary general o1
the Hispanic-American Cul-
tural Institute of Spain.
Zone of the things I like
most about America anc