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...Only remaining competitors: K. L. M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines), serving Trinidad and Para-maibo; German-dominated Condor Syndicate, operating in the interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: War Travel | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Condor of the Andes" was the style his countrymen gave this thoughtful, daring son of a German settler and Bolivian mother after he, in his late twenties, explored the wild Zamucos region. He served brilliantly in the Chaco War, afterwards was high in the military junta. When President Sorzano ruled too long by decree, Lieut. Colonel Busch was the Army's choice to supplant him. Last spring, banking on his enormous prestige with Bolivia's tea-colored masses, he declared a totalitarian State which he insisted derived from neither Germany nor Italy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Dead Condor | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Minister of Mines & Petroleum Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and Bolivian mother, second husband of a girl from New Haven, Conn, whom a Bolivian artist took home with him from Yale. Señor Foianini offered no theory other than nervous suicide about the dead Condor last week. But he was deeply sad, and in a great hurry to fly home before General Quintanilla and other Army men should reorient Busch's Bolivia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Dead Condor | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...skeptical at the parade might well have wondered how "free" Spain was when they saw 10,000 Italian troops, led by the veteran General Gastone Gambara, and 5,000 of the German Condor Legion pass by.* And one look at El Caudillo's uniform would tell them that Spain was still far from "one." It was a "compromise" uniform. On his head was the red boina (beret) worn by the conservative, monarchy-loving Carlists. Under his Army campaign blouse was the blue shirt of the Falangists, or Spanish Fascists, deadly political enemies of the Carlists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Ceremonial | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

When the last word is written on the Spanish war, it may well be recorded, in fact, that while the Italians made the bigger splash, the Germans got more out of it. Following the Condor Legion to Spain were German Gestapo agents, builders, contractors, businessmen. Spanish Morocco and the Basque country with their iron, became spheres of German commercial interests. Furthermore, in a future war, the Germans may be able to use the guns they have placed on Spanish territory near British-held Gibraltar, the five submarine bases they have helped build at Pasajes, El Ferrol, Villagarcia, Huelva and Malaga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Farewell | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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