Word: guernica
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Italians suffered no defeat, even at Guadalajara, there they retreated before greatly superior force and armaments, after lost about half their effectives, to a better position and there they stop the Reds and are still stopped. Neither the Germans destroyed Guernica, it was Bolshevists and British propaganda...
...things the Bilbainos feared: a bloody air raid against the civil population like the massacre at Guernica (TIME, May 10) and poison gas. Rightist planes strafed the outlying districts and military airports, but had not attacked the centre of the city in force by week's end. Generalissimo Franco not only wanted Bilbao, the second industrial city of Spain, but he wanted it whole. Fearful of enraging world opinion, neither side in Spain has used poison gas as yet. Basques worried greatly last week at the capture of dozens of Rightist soldiers carrying gas masks, and word from secret...
Stirred by the bombing of the Basques at Guernica. Idaho's eloquent old William Edgar Borah rose in the Senate one day last fortnight to denounce fascism, warn of increasing fascist activity in the U. S. His alarm, it soon appeared, was shared by Ambassador to Germany William Edward Dodd. In an extraordinary letter sent to Senators Bulkley, Glass and others last March, and given to the press by Senator Glass last week, the Ambassador passed along rumors that several Senators and a man "who owns nearly a billion dollars" were favorably disposed toward a U. S. dictatorship (TIME...
Refining the devastating White Spanish technique at the blasting of the Basque "Holy City" of Guernica (TIME, May 10), Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews commanding the Muroc air war, had spotted an outline of Greater Los Angeles on the desert with circles and triangles representing such legitimate combatant bomb targets as munitions plants, railheads, bridges. First blood last week went to Brigadier General Gerald C. Brant's attacking force which theoretically blasted the Douglas Aircraft factory at Culver City to bits...
...attacks and cheering each other with the thought that their grandfathers had held Bilbao through a siege of 125 days in the Carlist War of 1874. What made their chances blackest was an almost total lack of airplanes to oppose the German bombers of General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised to repeat that mass bombing of a civil population there would be no way of stopping him. Reconnoitering on the Basque Front, 18 Rightist planes became lost in fog, came down perforce in southern France. Allowing them to return, French...