Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time ships of the Rightist Navy took an important role assailing Leftist land positions, bombarded 25 miles of coastline, including strategic Castellon de la Plana, while Valencia was bombed from the air. Rightist warships seized a fleeing coast guard vessel aboard which were found eleven minor Leftist leaders, quantities of gold, silver and art objects...
...extra tuppence on tea, sternly declared the Chancellor, is "a small contribution, drawn from practically every home in the land" to help pay for rearmament...
...possibility for you : emigrate - if some one will accept you." While Herr Bürckel wants an "Aryanization" of Vienna just as much as his buoyant Storm Troopers, the Nazi organ, believed to reflect his views, declared there will be no pogroms," reminded everyone that "Germany is a land of justice." In Manhattan arrived Führer Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund after a trip to Germany and Austria. Met by two gray-coated, black-trousered Bund officers, Fuhrer Kuhn brought back a message from German Jews to American Jews. "I talked with lots and lots of Jews...
This week the thorough German curiosity of Hitler about Littoria is causing Italians gladly to rehearse in detail the history of 2,500 years and more. Littoria is a stretch of land 15 mi. wide by 50 long lying between the Lepine Mountains, which drains down onto its bogs and the Tyrrhenian Sea. What is now Littoria was, before the days of Ancient Rome, an extremely fertile country whose natives, the Volsci, were adept at maintaining the ditches and drains they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians...
...three main sections of the pact provide: 1) Britain is to transfer to Eire without reservation or compensation the three deep-water naval stations of Lough Swilly, Bere Haven and Cobh (Queenstown) which since 1921 have been maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will...