Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement to that effect in an early issue will be only fair...
Meanwhile 500,000 Rightist propaganda leaflets were fluttering down among the Basques against whom General Mola was driving. They urged everyone who disapproved of "sharing everything in Spain collectively" to hustle over to the Rightists and, according to dispatches from Rightist territory, these leaflets had considerable effect, numbers of devout Basques deserting their Radiorator. Advices from Bilbao reaching France were that many middle-class citizens favored joining the Rightist cause as the only alternative to "sharing everything" with Bilbao mobsters and blast furnace stalwarts...
...point of mutiny in some places, and at others, were Spanish troops so incensed by the "superior airs" of these foreigners that affrays were of frequent occurrence, Rightist discipline not up to scratch? Iron censorship hid the facts, but advices reaching Denmark from Morocco supported Leftist rumors to this effect. Rightists countered with rumors of mutiny among the dinamiteros or dynamite-throwing Leftist miners who ever since the start of the war have been trying to capture Rightists whom they continued last week to besiege in Oviedo...
Cordon Sanitaire? Not since the late great Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau moved the Allies to draw a "sanitary cordon" around Germany and attempt the same with Bolshevik Russia, have such plans been made as are to go into effect this week to put a watchful ring around Spain on April...
This week Britain will take another hitch in the communications belt of her farflung Empire when, for no extra charge, all first-class mail between the colonies and the mother country will begin to be carried by air. Exception is Canada, no scheduled North Atlantic service yet being in effect. To haul the estimated 20 tons of mail which will leave London each week, Imperial Airways, long equipped with huge old rattletraps, has acquired a fleet of 28 Short Brothers four-motored flying boats. Last week the Empire's great new airmail network hit a snag before it could...