Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Spaniards went to war with one another, egged on by Italy and Germany. In January 1937 a special resolution was rushed to Congress to take care of this unforeseen situation, for the Neutrality Act had no provision covering Civil Wars. It was passed at the behest of the State Department which was anxious to support British and French "nonintervention" policy. One lone Representative, Bernard of Minnesota, voted against...
...Chinese civil leaders issued long, hopeful reports on numerous phases of Chinese national activity. Just concluded in Chungking was a conference of all military bigwigs. Despite the loss during the last year of almost every coastal port, the Chinese retreat from the middle Yangtze Valley and the near exhaustion of Chinese finances (last week the Chinese Government placed restrictions on imports to save its foreign exchange), the military men professed to believe that the Japanese war machine in China had bogged down. Cheeriest of all was dapper little General Chen Cheng, Political Minister of the National Military Council...
When Madrid fell to Generalissimo Francisco Franco last March and the Spanish Civil War was ended, only one prominent Republican remained to hand over the capital to the conquerors. He was Julian Besteiro, onetime professor of philosophy at the University of Madrid. Professor Besteiro was one of the large group of Left-wing Republicans who took power when the monarchy was overthrown in 1931. He was President of the Cortes when the new Republic was writing its Constitution, and many admired the way the Socialist Professor handled the unruly deputies in those uproarious days...
When the Spanish Civil War started, Latin American embassies in Spain gave refuge to and probably saved the skins of thousands of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers. Moreover, the Latin Americans always demanded (and most of the time got) safe conduct for their refugees to the border. Argentina once threatened to send a battleship to Spain to protect refugees held at the summer embassy in San Sebastian, and Argentine protection allowed Ramon Serrano Suner, Minister of Interior in the present Franco Cabinet, to escape from a Madrid prison to Nationalist territory. Peru at one time protected 360 Nationalists...
...news, numbered George Washington among the subscribers who read the lively, eye-witness war correspondence of Israel Putnam. Republican since the Connecticut branch of the party was founded in its editorial rooms by Publisher Joseph R. Hawley, who was the first man in his State to enlist in the Civil War, and who returned a brigadier general, the Courant opposed women's suffrage and the direct election of Senators as steadfastly as it now opposes Franklin Roosevelt...