Word: biscay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the Bay of Biscay belligerently steamed six German warships, attempting by the menace of their guns to make the Spanish Reds release the Nazi freighter Palos which they had seized and interned at Bilbao. Amid much bluster on both sides, the Nazis made "unalterable demands," the Reds "unalterable refusals," and the little Palos became a bone over which could snarl the mightiest dogs of war. Meanwhile a fresh White offensive surged completely into Madrid from the west, occupying the north station near the onetime Royal Palace, then was swept completely out again by the Reds...
Neutral military authorities, viewing the capture of Irun and San Sebastian, considered that Generalissimo Franco and General Mola were now in North Spain strategically just about where they had expected to be seven weeks ago. They had counted on commanding the Bay of Biscay from the first. When this region failed to join the Whites, the entire Mola-Franco plan for a quick southward thrust over the mountains to take Madrid was held up, since to attempt it would have been to risk attack from the rear. Thus this week there was a sense in which not only Premier Largo...
...Priests Hanged." When nine priests disguised as fishermen slipped from Spain over the Bay of Biscay to France last week and talked to correspondents, out went such headlines as SIX HUNDRED PRIESTS AND NUNS SLAIN BY ANARCHISTS. There was also the one about the 82-year-old Archbishop of Valladolid killed by a firing squad with his arms tied around the neck of a statue of the Virgin Mary fortnight ago. Last week the Archbishop arrived safely at Bordeaux. In Irun, which the White forces took after its Anarchist defenders burned it (TIME, Sept. 14), no confirmation could...
...proceed to San Sebastian immediately to rescue U. S. citizens from the inferno of Spanish civil war. Under way, the Oklahoma's petty officers doubled up in their cabins, and sailors cleared out the crews' recreation room for an emergency nursery. Plowing down the Bay of Biscay watch officers worried. U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers had not been heard from in Spain for four days. He was not at the summer embassy at San Sebastian but a few miles away at his own villa at the narrow little seaport of Fuenterrabia. Was he alive? The engine room...
With her first load of doomed human freight in two years, the famed French convict ship La Martinière slipped last week out of St. Martin-de-Ré, out of the Bay of Biscay, bound for the three little "Isles of Safety'' off French Guiana in South America, of which the most famed is Devil's Island. Her entire passenger list of 673 was below, locked in great iron cages. Over their heads was a network of pipes ready to pour out killing live steam in case of mutiny. With their blankets cowled over their...