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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...border. French submarines patrolled the Tunisian Coast. The French Mediterranean fleet of 44 warships moved suddenly into the naval base at Bizerte, at the entrance to the narrowest part of the Mediterranean opposite Sicily. Carrying out "spring exercises" not far away were 92 men-of-war of the British Home and Mediterranean Fleets...
...been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed over into France with the fall of Catalonia, also declined to go home. French and British diplomats applied pressure at this opportune time and the upshot was that Loyalist Spain at last agreed to reduce its conditions of surrender to one: that Generalissimo Franco promise a general amnesty for Loyalist leaders...
...reasonable but a necessary one. The French Government is anxious to get the 380,000 Spanish refugees now in France back into Spain. Moreover, wholesale executions and arrests following a surrender arranged by the French and British Governments might be embarrassing to Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier at home...
Last month Hungary's Premier Bela Imrédy, speaking at his home town of Baja, declared he had not one drop of Jewish blood in his veins, showed baptismal certificates of his grandparents to prove it. This was his answer to a widespread whispering campaign that the Premier, author of severe anti-Semitic bills introduced recently in the Hungarian Parliament, was himself part Jewish...
...Saint Gandhi and guided by Coordinator Patel, Congress provincial governments have outlawed the distillation, sale and consumption of liquor in numerous small experimental areas. In other places bars and liquor shops have been closed on pay days, thus making it more likely that the Hindu workman will get home with his salary before spending it on coconut toddy, a sort of ancient moonshine which is his favorite cheap drink...