Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick of the Popular Front and Spanish Loyalist affairs. The failure of both, followed by Munich, all but shattered her. Then the Germans invaded Poland. Madame Tabouis watched...
Pilot Officer Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 23, adventurous nephew of Mrs. Winston Churchill, was listed by the R.C.A.F. as "missing after overseas air operations." Onetime Loyalist fighter in Spain, he eloped with the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, sister of Nazi-phile Unity, romped about the U.S.'s eastern seaboard with her from 1939 till last year when he went to Canada to enter training...
...about the Russian blood purges, Darkness at Noon. He had never loved France quite so much as then, never been so "achingly conscious of its sweetness and decay." He was a young (36), Budapest-born journalist, a Gentile, a man of political action. He had been a trenchantly pro-Loyalist newspaper correspondent in Spain, where Franco forces had caught him and led him through the streets of Malaga in chains. He had been a member of the Communist party for seven years, had left it in disgust 18 months before the Stalin-Hitler pact...
...week was 69% interventionist. Remembered last week was the discrepancy between the Catholic press and Catholics in the Spanish Civil War. After two years of nearly total pro-Franco sentiment in the Catholic press, a Gallup poll showed that one-third of U.S. Catholics were neutral, 43% were pro-Loyalist, less than 25% pro-Franco...
...later, on May 1, Pablo Picasso, strong Loyalist, began work on a mural depicting that first and most ruthless bombing of an open town which was not a military objective, for the Spanish Government Building at the Paris World's Fair. His mural is now in the Fogg Art Museum, and will hang there till the 20th of October...