“Acapulco, Mexico: "…queer, dirty little dago town…. The people are too revolting for words, super dagoes & some of them are quite black as a result of Spaniards inter-breeding with the Indians; & of course they only speak Spanish"”

9 September 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales

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king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936 1894–1972

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