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With the quashing of the Anarchist riots and the formation of the more efficient Negrin Government at Valencia, a drastic effort was made to get Barcelona to bear its share of the fighting. Up from Valencia to take control of Barcelona's military came greying, hard-bitten General Sebastian Pozas, ordered to instill a little efficiency into the Barcelona Government and to try to get a few Catalan soldiers into the trenches. Last week came startling news: General Pozas had finally taken the field at the head of a new army of 200,000 Catalans, and some...
Black-&-Tans, those hard-bitten ex-Army men who were sent to Ireland in 1920 to shoot it out with the Nationalist guerrillas. Irish County Inspector Hannay (John Lodge) and British Captain Wiltshire of the Royal Intelligence Corps (John Loder) both dedicated to preserving British law & order, have captured a pair of important emissaries from Sinn Fein headquarters but their lorry is hijacked by a mysterious local Sinn Fein chieftain named Commandant O'Dea (Niall MacGinnis). Neither suspects that O'Dea is the high spirited young brother of Maureen Elliot (Antoinette Cellier), the Irish girl with whom both...
...Washington, D. C., laboratory Dr. Edward Francis, of the U. S. Public Health Service allowed himself to be bitten by a baby California tick, promptly contracted relapsing fever, a highly dangerous disease accompanied by high temperatures, aching joints. Dr. Francis had previously infected himself with tularemia ("rabbit fevers''), undulant (malta) fever. Rocky Mountain spotted fever; advanced medical knowledge of each malady. Last week Dr. Francis was recovering again after having proved that relapsing fever is carried by California ticks, that female ticks infect their progeny before birth...
...compelled to take account of public interest for good or ill as in the fourth decade of the 20th Century. Putting foot to spade in Europe they have turned over so many clodfuls of dead cultural matter that their most vivid talents. Joyce, Auden, MacDiarmid. Aragon, seem hell-bitten to innocent readers. Among affirmatory fledglings, Revolution or at least the advance of the masses has easily displaced Love and Death...
...Bullets were still whining past at the rate of five or six a minute. "Suddenly I saw a mangy dog ambling down the avenue. Quickly I pulled out my lunch to tempt him to come closer so I could shield my head behind his flea-bitten body...