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Safest way for a newspaperman to travel through Rightist Spain is to tread softly without stepping on the toes of Rightist Generalissimo Franco. Last week, safely perched on British Gibraltar after a six-week journey from end to end of Rightist territory, New York Times Staffwriter Harold Callender filed his first detailed dispatches on the German and Italian forces operating in Franco Spain...
...shores were marked with lighthouses Key West inhabitants did a good trade in wrecked vessels. Then came Cubans, fleeing their revolution in 1869. who set up Key West's cigarmaking industry. Spongers and shrimp fishers followed. For a time the U. S. planned to make it an American Gibraltar. In 1896. Key West's prosperity was at its peak, its population at an all-time high of 25,000 and it was the biggest, richest city in Florida. But despite Henry Flagler's railroad population began to decline, is now down to 13,000. Rehabilitated...
...young Lieutenant Niemoller set off on the ramshackle U-73 told to do as much damage to Allied shipping as he could with the old hulk. He promptly hoisted the French flag and under these false colors sailed boldly past the British war boats guarding Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. There, still flying the French flag whenever it suited his purposes. Lieutenant Niemoller became "The Scourge of Malta," daringly sank two troopships and a British manofwar, even laid German mines in the very harbor of Valletta...
...Gibraltar last week the Rightist Government sent an official announcement that El Caudillo Francisco Franco has expelled from Rightist Spain Francis Xavier Charles Marie Anne Joseph, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, Carlist pretender to Spain's vanished throne...
...Spain, however, not only Legitimists but powerful London friends of Franco became alarmed. After all, the mother of Legitimist Juan is a British princess who today lives in London, receiving full honors from the royal family as Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. Last week's Rightist announcement at Gibraltar said the Carlist Pretender had been expelled from Rightist Spain for engaging in "political activities...