Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Embarrassment by Bombers. But the most embarrassing commuter dropped down on the Barcelona airport in a Junkers bomber piloted by two Luftwaffe officers in mufti. From the plane onto neutral Spanish soil stepped French ex-Premier Pierre Laval in black felt hat and his invariable white tie. He was nervously puffing a cigaret. Behind him came his wife and two Vichy Ministers, Abel Bonnard (Education) and Maurice Gabolde (Justice). Laval's heavy baggage included expensive jewelry, a swatch of French banknotes, bundles of political documents...
Aristocratic Whack. In his Swiss villa at Lausanne, handsome, non-hemophilic Don Juan Charles Teresa Silvere Alphonse, Prince of the Asturias, Count of Barcelona, and pretender to the throne vacated by his late father Alfonso XIII, judged the time ripe for a manifesto to the people. Proclaimed Don Juan...
...naturalized citizen, and a Lutheran pastor for more than 20 years in northern New Jersey, until a trip to Germany in 1941. In Berlin, said the FBI, he had talked with Walter Kappe, boss of the Nazi saboteur school. When he returned to the U.S. (via Barcelona, nine days after Pearl Harbor) he quit the pulpit, became a bookkeeper...
Another new Battlefronts writer (who worked 11 years for the Associated Press) began following the battle for Europe long before Munich-went through the bombing of Barcelona and the Spanish War, was bombed again in Brussels in 1940, got out of Belgium just a jump ahead of the Nazis, then worked for months in occupied Paris and collaborating Vichy ("I began to feel like a Jonah"). Two years ago he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard, and five years before that the National Headliners Club gave him a gold plaque for the best spot news coverage...
...republican, distinguished, Jeffersonian Virginia. Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...