Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Russia, rushed Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps to the Kremlin, where he is well liked. But was there time to get help from Russia? To smooth relations with Spain, His Majesty's Government sent Sir Samuel Hoare as Ambassador to Madrid. He got a chilly reception and exiled Loyalist Alvárez del Vayo cracked: "The mission of a failure." Women and children were already being evacuated from Gibraltar, whose garrison the German-planted guns in Algeciras may try to blow into the sea before long...
Bridges assailed the newest Cabinet member particularly for dropping charges against 17 Detroit residents charged with recruiting soldiers for the Spanish Loyalist Government in connection with the late Spanish civil war, while prosecuting charges against 17 members of the allegedly fascistic Christian Front in New York...
...produced, The Fifth Column told of Philip Rawlings, a U. S. newspaper man doing counter-espionage work for the Loyalists in Madrid.* Rawlings' job has got him down. He meets an American girl, rapes her in a fit of drunken violence, then falls madly in love with her. Against the pleas and warnings of his superiors, he plans to desert his job and clear out with the girl. At the last minute he is free to do so, because of a Loyalist order releasing all foreign volunteers from service. Then, from a sense of honor and devotion...
...Nebraska's aging George W. Norris rose in the Senate and declared: "Frankly I am worried about the activities of this Bureau." What worried him were recent arrests by G-Men in Detroit of 16 persons on charges of having assisted volunteers to enlist in the Loyalist Army in Spain...
...servants, and to make a rapid rather than stuffy job of it, is no bad idea. That the people should be caricatures, symbols, is fair enough. That they should also be stock-company characters-a tough old millionaire, a fat Hungarian cook, a brilliant great-grandson who dies for Loyalist Spain-is neither necessary nor advantageous. Noisy, self-confident, First-Novelist Longstreet flashes a sharp cartoonist's talent in the telling of his rather tawdry events. In spots Decade has real vitality. More often it is just "lusty...