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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most countries wait until after their wars are over to show off their battlefields. Last week, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's newly opened Tourist Office announced that, beginning July 1, it would conduct tours into what was a year ago a bloody battlefield, is now a peaceful, although still partially ruined, countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Battlefield Tours | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

While the latest comers on the Harvard battlefield did their fulminating, the local committee of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy quietly told the story of its progress towards a second mercy cart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insurgent Spain May Receive Ambulance in New Alms Plan | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...lighter "carry-all" will be obtained to supplement the heavier ambulance purchased last year. "This machine darts onto the battlefield, picks up the less seriously wounded, and carries them back to the medical unit, while the heavier vehicle is reserved for those with hurts so serious that such hurried trips in a light truck might have fatal effects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insurgent Spain May Receive Ambulance in New Alms Plan | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Franco has sanctioned the bombing of women and children. . . . Lee notably succeeded in keeping war on the battlefield, where he and most of his soldiers thought it belonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...neutral foreigners at between 7,000 and 10,000, but the Chinese Generalissimo's headquarters estimated that the Imperial Japanese Government had now massed half-a-million men for the purpose of attempting this week to wipe out their defeats, smash through to Suchow. Best reconstruction from the battlefield of the Taierchwang fighting was sent by Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele: "0verconfidence and contempt for the Chinese army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang as the bait and the Japanese bit, and bit hard, by advancing on the village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Inexcusable Blunder | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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