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...Spanish Basque harbor of Bilbao, H. M. S. Hood, most potent warboat in the world, plowed ponderously through mountainous waves with Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake on its quarterdeck. Between the Hood and the harbor was the ancient Spanish battleship España, flagship of the Rightist fleet, and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100-mi. away a half-dozen British freighters were in the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, loaded with food for beleaguered Leftist Bilbao, but by orders from London the Hood, with all the awesomeness of its 15-inch guns...
...Pirates." Rightist warships blockading the port of Bilbao, and keeping off British ships which were trying to deliver food which the Leftists had bought in England, were "pirates" in the eyes of London which ordered His Majesty's mighty warship Hood to the scene. Excitement over this slumped when the British Cabinet, covertly favorable to Franco, advised British ships not to try to enter Bilbao as the harbor might have been mined. This ingenious supposition enabled His Majesty's Government to achieve much the same blockade objective as that of the "pirates" without being in the least piratical...
...members of the commission finally signed the report, including Robin Hood, secretary-treasurer of the National Co-Operative Council. In contrast to most of his fellow members, Robin Hood was bearish on the future of U. S. coops, pointing out that European co-ops flourished because they satisfied basic economic needs. Concluded he: "It may thus be seen that the chief factors accounting for the remarkable development of consumer co-operation in Europe are: 1) exceedingly inefficient retail distribution ... 2) class loyalty to their own institutions given by repressed industrial workers, who in Europe are not as migratory and mobile...
...time in as many years the Legislative Committee on Education yesterday reported against the Teacher's Oath Law, this time favoring repeal by a vote of nine to five. This decision represents an advance over last year's count, where repeal triumphed by a single vote, and the likeli-hood of the House following the Committee's lead is far greater than before...
Seven students, volunteer workers for the Committee of Industrial Organization and in particular for the United Rubber Workers, were released yesterday after being arrested for circulating pamphlets urging employees of the Hood Rubber plant to organize...