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...face. His nature is jovial. He appears phlegmatic. But I suspect that the joviality can fall like a mask, and the somewhat flabby features grow taut. His lips are thin. I will not be surprised if I hear him make hard decisions." So wrote a German Communist of "General Gomez," commander of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and a professional soldier in the cause of Communism...
...imagine the uproar in Washington if Britain's Foreign Secretary Eden presented a sword from Queen Elizabeth II to Colombia's President [Laureano Gomez] and encouraged the Colombians to reoccupy Panama...
Probable starting lineups: Harvard--Fisher, g; Laimbeer, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Hadik, rhb; Bigelow, chb; Little, lhb; Lingelbach, or; Holmes, ir; Goles, cf; Lloyd H; Truslow, ol; Exeter--Tyson, g; King, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Ballard, rhb; Hodnett, chb; Lamont, rhb; McIntosh, or; Gomez, ir; Martin, cf; Parker, il; Burlingame...
...Bosses. Boss of the whole show is Security Minister Wilhelm Zaisser, whose profession is revolution. Communist Zaisser led the Rhineland Red uprisings of 1923, later turned up in Spain as "General Gomez," commander of the 13th International Brigade. Heinz Hoffman, Inspector General of the Vopo, is a graduate of the Red army's war college...
Last week, grey and gnarled and living on the charity of friends, Gomez, now 61, appeared in Mexico City and demanded that the Defense Department give him a lieutenant colonel's pay of 1,000 pesos a month. The department refused, on the grounds that Gomez was a finger officer, i.e., an officer who got his rank when Villa pointed a finger and said, "You are a colonel." Replied Gomez with dignity: "I won my rank the hard way... A man such as I, who has died, at least has the right to eat daily." But at week...