Word: loyalist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Outstanding among the current war-inspired films, this one begins a la Hemingway in Loyalist Spain, and proceeds by dint of skillful direction and Noel Cowardly dialogue right up to the present. It is built around the ancient girl reporter backbone, but manages, by the brilliant development throughout, to deemphasize this pleasantly...
...being returned from France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
...Germans find it necessary to stamp out the people's allegiance to their King; other precautionary and repressive measures were taken last week. It was decreed that no farmer could go to the cities with out special permission from the authorities. This ruling virtually strapped thousands of loyalist Norwegians who fled the cities during the invasion. Persons unable to find employment, according to another ruling, "will be permitted to go to Germany for work"-i.e., forced labor. In Stavanger, each family "in conformity with the principles" of the Nazi Party was allotted a half-ton of coke. In other...
...over a deep gorge behind Franco's lines. Robert Jordan, a young American International Brigader, is ordered to blow up the bridge. He must get help from the guerrillas who live in Franco's territory. The bridge must be destroyed at the precise moment when a big Loyalist offensive begins. If the bridge can be destroyed, the offensive may succeed. If the offensive succeeds, the struggle of the human race against fascism may be advanced a step. The courage of the Spanish peasants is linked to the fate of all mankind...
...Tank Corps in World War I. The Italians themselves made him the first journalist, Italian or foreign, to win an Italian War Cross, for valor he showed when ambushed with some Italian soldiers in Ethiopia. It took courage to return to Italy after boosting the Loyalist cause for two years in Spain. His remarks to the press on receiving his walking papers took some courage, too. "I am told here that Mr. Roosevelt was making a political issue of my dispatch," he said, "and that the Italians feel they must do likewise...