Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interviewed in his Emerson Hall study yesterday, Nicholas S. Timasheff, Lecturer in Sociology and former Professor at the Franco-Russian Institute of Political Science in Paris, stated that Anglo-French policy threw Russia inevitably into the arms of Germany...
...HUNDREDTH YEAR-Philip Guedalla-Doubleday, Doran ($3). The fateful year of 1936 (hundredth since Victoria's accession), when Hitler militarized the Rhineland, Italy conquered Abyssinia, Franco started the Spanish Civil War, Roosevelt was reflected and Edward Windsor left the throne of England, presented in smooth, newsreel episodes by the smooth author of The Hundred Years (TIME...
Standing on opposite sides of the Franco-Belgian border, Belgian Marie Cattoin, unable to cross as a neutral, and French Aviator Pierre Delespeaux, unable to cross as a belligerent, were married. After the ceremony, Mme Delespeaux stepped into France...
...retreating again at night, Bessie found himself running in the dark through a camp of Franco's troops. He was one of four, out of a detachment of 70, that got across the Ebro into relative safety. After that the men knew that the People's Army was being overpowered by German and Italian force, that they were the tail-end of the International volunteers. Scared Spanish boys came in as replacements, together with deserters and "goldbricks" once thought unfit for fighting. One soldier wept. "They killed all the good guys," he said. "I seen guys...
That might have been written by Ernest Hemingway in 1936, sitting in the Hotel Florida in Madrid while Franco's planes droned above the city. Or it could have been written by Floyd Gibbons in Shanghai the day the Palace Hotel had its front blown off, in 1937. Actually neither- Hemingway nor Gibbons wrote it, nor any of the war correspondents whose names were sometimes bigger than the news in Ethiopia, Spain and China, but a 28-year-old reporter named Daniel De Luce, who went to Europe for the first time last April...