Word: ausonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neutral, veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, organized in January 1937 to fight for Loyalist Spain. The brigade mustered altogether 4,000 U. S. citizens. Last September the Spanish Leftist Government disbanded it. Those who filed last week from the third-class gangplank of the Cunarder Ausonia to a Manhattan dock had left behind some 2,000 killed and missing, 250 captured at Belchite, Brunete, many another battleground. (Others are still in Spain or convalescing in France, and 870 veterans had already returned...
...York with Captain H. A. Pedersen in command. Soon the lucky eight, like the crews of the Vestris, Antinoe, Florida, many another hapless vessel, were toasting their shins in a U. S. Liner's galley. Landing in Manhattan just in time to board the departing Cunarder Ausonia for Halifax, they got back home for a Christmas in which wide-awake U. S. seamanship played a far greater part than Santa Claus...
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