Word: cadiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that volunteers are wanted. Colonels reportedly say to their battalions: "All men not prepared to volunteer fall out of the ranks." In still other cases Italians have been shipped to Spain from Italian East Africa, or have been "sent" to Italian East Africa only to find themselves disembarking at Cadiz...
...balance this week, reliable facts favored the Leftists throughout Spain and Morocco, but the Rightists were said at latest reports to have been joined via Cadiz by another 10,000 Italian troops and Spain's tragedy was still anybody's war, or rather everybody's. Last week in France batches of U. S. citizens attempting sneaks into Spain were being arrested, jailed, faced prison terms up to six months, fines...
Beyond that all he knew was that one morning he packed his kit in Ethiopia under the impression that he was to be sent back to Italy, found himself a few weeks later disembarking from an Italian transport at Cadiz, officially a member of Spain's Foreign Legion. Last week Fortunato Manure was one of some 200 Italians, ranging in rank from privates up to a Lieutenant-Colonel, who were captured by Madrid's defenders in five days of furious strife which badly broke the point of the so-called "Italian Spearhead" thrusting at Madrid from the northeast...
...most extraordinary thing about the agreement", Langer stated, "is that on the very same day that it was made public, Italy was reported to have landed more than 4000 troops at Cadiz. This is sufficient proof that the agreement did not aid the British position...
Last week Mary Lewis Hague made another debut-at the Versailles night club in Manhattan, where she wore a slinky, electric-blue sequin dress, sang better than most night-club singers Shootin' High, Did I Remember? and, with snapping fingers and swaying hips, Les Filles de Cadiz...