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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol Hill, two deans of the Senate, Lewis of Illinois and Borah of Idaho, arose to support this view. They were joined by rowdy Bob Reynolds of North Carolina, who exclaimed: "We should wash behind our ears before telling other nations of the world to take a bath...
Madrid had held out for two and a half years. But Madrid lies on a plain and behind a deep-cut river bed. Barcelona lies defenseless in a cup. Furthermore, when the Rebels tried to take Madrid in 1936 they were far inferior in numbers and not much better off in material than the defenders. And the defenders of Madrid were spirited militia, men like the "iron" regiment which snatched up its arms from the dead. The Republican Army that was forced back on Barcelona had been outnumbered and smashed for five weeks by the greatest concentration of war material...
...full disorganized retreat northward through what remained to them of Catalonia-an area about the size of Connecticut. Some brigades had 120 men left out of a normal complement of 1,500. Some companies had only 25 rifles and no machine guns. And as a further sign of demoralization, behind it the People's Army left a large part of what stores of food and gasoline remained...
...prime factor that makes a nation fertile for fascism is a desperate internal situation. A minor prerequisite is a scapegoat minority population on which the fascist leaders can blame the nation's troubles, unite the nation behind them and against...
...Behind this new interest in the ancient sport of rowing is the installment of a new streamlined crew machine which pushes the water past the stationary oarsmen at the rate of five miles per hour, an increase of three miles per hour, over the old gasoline engine which has put so many former Harvard rowing "greats" into championship form...