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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo from asking the Assembly of the League of Nations to do something about Portuguese-German-Italian aid to the Spanish Whites and about the Great Powers embargo denying arms to Madrid. In a Geneva newspaper article signed by Portuguese Foreign Minister Dr. Armindo Rodriguez de Ittau Monteiro, he strongly hinted that if Madrid by any chance won the Spanish Civil War its Reds would next have to fight Portugal...
...relics of the Great Navigator in his possession, sold them instead for $164,000 to the Spanish Government in 1926. Last week the 57-year-old Duke of Veragua was. for reasons unknown, executed in Madrid together with his brother-in-law, the 72-year-old Duke de la Vega. Meanwhile Government forces, before they were driven from tourist-beloved Ronda, the most picturesque "Picture Town" in Southern Spain, slew 800 Whites...
...British commander considered that he had Madrid definitely in his grasp after he took Talavera de la Reina in the year 1809. Last week, after Talavera de la Reina had been changing hands for days in desperate engagements between Red Militia and the Whites (TIME, Sept. 21), an entire fleet of German bombing planes with German pilots and German bombs went into action and Generalissimo Franco's ground forces occupied Talavera de la Reina in a manner sufficiently decisive to have suited even the Duke of Wellington. After this victory Madrid was only 45 miles from Generalissimo Franco...
After Channing, Jaakko is looking to the following to build up his team: Cyrus C. De Costa Jr. '37, George P. Gardner Jr. '39, Francis M. Rivinus Jr. '38, Eugene H. Walker '37, Charles C. Worth '38, and William H. Wright Jr. '38. Alex Northrop '38, the most promising man for the number two post, is ineligible and his place will probably be taken by Henry Marcy...
...Loyalties" is the name of one of the lesser-known plays of John Galsworthy, now a movie, and it means the esprit de corps that binds together the gentlemen of England, in addition to another loyalty that tends to disrupt that union...