Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musings nowadays are about the International Column in Spain and its Red militia. In London this week British Reds were snapping up copies of a handy new work, Defence of Madrid, the siege of which still rages, written by the London News Chronicle's, civil war Correspondent Geoffrey Cox, a warm Communist sympathizer and a fairly objective reporter. Merrily he writes of a Madrid midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks must once have "belonged to a millionaire." The driver "had nearly half...
This was a lighter side of Reds at play, but Mr. Cox grows earnest writing his British admiration of the men now assembled in Spain under General Emilio Kleber, today Commander of the International Column, the tough soldiers of fortune from many lands who first put the backbone of trained soldiering into the defense of Madrid (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.}. Writes News Chronicle's Cox: "General Kleber is by birth an Austrian. His family took him to Toronto when he was still a child, and he became a naturalized British citizen, which he remains to this...
...managed to make my way from Siberia to Moscow and join the Red Army," General Kleber told Mr. Cox...
...where he organized the Communist storm troops. In 1927 he was in China, leading one group of the Red Armies against Chiang Kai-shek." Over exactly how the present International Column was organized and hurled into Spain just as Madrid's defenses were about to crumble, Communist Sympathizer Cox draws a veil, simply recording: "General Kleber was at the head of the first brigade of the International Column which arrived in Madrid on that fateful Sunday, November 8th. . . . The Spanish civil war is the third in which he has fought, and the third in which he has had experience...
Since most communist organs are convinced that Britain's Catholic Charge d'Affaires George Arthur D. Ogilvie-Forbes is a sort of Papal Ogre in Spain, the News Chronicle's reasonably objective Geoffrey Cox takes time out to report that considering that he is a Catholic" he is really not such a bad lot: "At night, very late, there would come stealing faintly into the ha11 of the Embassy a sound which I am sure must have perplexed the [Spanish] guards at the gate. . . . Behind closed doors Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes was play-the bagpipes. He plays them...