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...this sultry, tense atmosphere, some Socialists last week leaned out of their headquarters windows in the North African garrison town of Melilla in Spanish Morocco and brashly booed a regiment of the famed Spanish Foreign Legion, marching home from drill. The Legionnaires broke ranks, threw the Socialists out their own windows. At this a huge revolt, carefully planned, erupted into plain view and silence descended on Spain...
...high good humor the Moroccan rebels launched their invasion of Spain proper. A troopship loaded with Legionnaires put in at Algeciras near Gibraltar. A rebel torpedo boat shelled the undecided garrison at La Linea, which thereupon joined the revolt. But when La Linea citizens, watching black Moorish troops march into barracks, refused to disperse, the Moors mowed them down with machine guns, blasted them with hand grenades, left La Linea's streets littered with dead. In thousands of commandeered cars, the rebels pushed north, fanning out along the railroads leading toward Madrid...
...only is an Anglo-Italian rapprochement desirable but it is necessary, and I will do everything in my power to bring it about. ... I do not see why there should be an armaments race in Africa. The garrison in Libya [adjoining Egypt] will not be withdrawn until an entente in the Mediterranean can be brought about, but the whole force will be brought home as soon as the British ships are withdrawn. . . . We are not a people given to rancor...
...Anyone who is acquainted with American University graduates in the liberal and radical movements must remark the high proportion of Harvard men," the article states. Brief reference is made to the radical activities of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Oswald Garrison Villard '93, Felix Frankfurter, Lloyd K. Garrison '19, prominently mentioned as a candidate to succeed Dean Pound of the Law School, and many others...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of $175 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, to Peter R. Viereck...