Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature of this war that evidently has been overlooked by all news agencies, and one which I have often wondered about is this: What has happened to the thousands of Spanish Loyalists interned in France at the end of the Spanish War? Have they been absorbed into the French Army? Or have they been forced into civilian activity behind the front...
These thousands of proven fighters would make a worthy windfall for the French Army, and these men, driven from their homes by totalitarian aggression, should be anxious for a crack at Hitler, without whose help Franco could have never...
...Spanish refugees in France (82,500 militiamen, 100,000 old men, women & children) 40,500 have been absorbed by industry, agriculture and public works projects, the remaining 142,000 are in concentration camps. Almost certainly no refugees have been accepted in the French fighting forces...
...English and French propaganda tries to play up the defeats of the Allies in order to gain American sympathy for the democracies"; Hubert P. Earle '41 stated yesterday...
Earle was quite impressed with the prowess of the French army, especially the African native troops. Besides machine guns, and all the implements of modern warfare, each Senegalese native carries his own knife to finish...