Word: axelsson
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...official Rightist-conducted tour was arranged primarily for French correspondents but New York Timesman George Axelsson managed to get there first and snoop around on his own for four days, then spent three on the conducted tour. London's Laborite Daily Herald insisted the French correspondents were "duped" when they saw no Italian garrison, the Herald's Paris office continuing to see a garrison of 30,000. Mr. Axelsson in an uncensored dispatch to the Times agreed with the French correspondents that there is no Italian garrison but an Italian and German aviation personnel of 500 and some...
...Axelsson saw three and heard reliably of six Rightist submarines which base their activities at Majorca. These flew the Rightist flag but "the natives," cabled Observer Axelsson, "naïvely and frankly suggested that the big ones might have been bought from Italy...