Word: almeria
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...most perplexing features of the United States Neutrality Act comes from the difficulty of deciding what is a war and what is not one. To the liberals who felt that after the bombing of Almeria President Roosevelt should have invoked the Act against Germany the news from Washington that Secretary Hull and Norman Davis dissuaded the executive from this course shows the extreme caution of the State Department...
...listed 100 separate documents. The book contained 101, the hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland, the shells that blasted Almeria (see p. 22). Upon receipt of the news, Alvarez del Vayo presented to the Council his country's formal protest. As usual when faced by direct action, the delegates, rushed to their telephones to get in touch with their home capitals...
...night passed as the world waited to see what Germany might do. Monday noon the answer came, not from Berlin or Iviza, but from Almeria, a small grape and orange-shipping port of military importance on Spain's southeastern corner, now jammed with noncombatant refugees from Rightist-held Malaga. Almeria had nothing to do with the raids on Mallorca, but Almeria is on the section of Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship...
Within a few hours the bodies of 36 men, women & children had been pulled from Almeria's wreckage. More than 100 were reported missing. An accident saved the lives of many. At 1 a.m. a false air raid alarm had been sounded, sent hundreds scurrying to the hills...
...past sequence of events holds true, the renewed ferocity with which Italy and Germany are plunging into the war will be countered by additional help to Madrid from Russia, and the twenty killed on the Deutschland and the hundred killed in Almeria are just an "aperitif" before a long meal. That Germany and Italy will go out of their way to fight in Spain is the lesson of the latest crisis, and the moral therefrom is that positive pressure of an economic or political nature must be applied to these countries before they wholly upset the tight-rope team...