Senor Alcala Zamora, the President of the Spanish Provisional Government, received to-day Mr. Paul Goodman, Secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in Great Britain, who is also representing the Jewish Telegraphic Agency during his visit here. In reply to Mr. Goodmann, who thanked him for the historic act of reparation of his Government for the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Senor Zamora expressed his pleasure at the friendly sentiments of Sephardic Jewry towards Spain. He hoped, he said, that the knowledge of Spanish language and culture would be extended among them. As an instance of how widespread the Spanish language is already, he related how on a visit which he had paid to the Island of Rhodes some years ago, he and his wife were happy to be addressed in Spanish by a Jewish boatman there.
He also mentioned that in his address when the Honcrary degree of Doctor was conferred on him by the College of Doctors of Madrid, of which Dr. Ignacio Bauer, who welcomed him on the occasion, is President, he had referred to the Semitic influence as one of the traditional features of Spanish culture.
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