Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point of Matthews' pre-Cuba career came during the Spanish Civil War, in which he was outspokenly partisan for the Communist-backed Loyalist forces. At one point he was reproached by Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger for having made the Loyalist situation appear brighter than it was. Recalled he, in his 1946 book, The Education of a Correspondent: "Even then, heartsick and discouraged as I was, something sang inside of me. I, like the Spaniards, had fought my war and lost, but I couldn't be persuaded that I had set too bad an example...
Leading the Way. The Commonwealth idea is a means of letting colonies grow into nations, and among British colonies of the igth century Canada led the way to nationhood. After the American Revolution, an estimated 40,000 Loyalist refugees fled the hated republicanism of the new United States and found refuge in Canada-an influx of British stock to an area until then mostly populated by French habitants. In 1837 a brace of piddling rebellions-one led by French-Canadian Louis Papineau, the other by British-Canadian William Lyon Mackenzie-startled London and led to the establishment of "responsible government...
Settling Scores. With Shawaf's death. Mosul became a scene of bloody anarchy. Rebel soldiers fought with loyalist comrades; Peace Partisans gunned for Nasser sympathizers; bedouins moved in to pillage and burn, and in the chaos many old private scores were settled. Shawaf's riddled, smashed body was dragged through the streets, then dumped in a car and driven off to Baghdad. Through two days' wild shooting and looting, three Americans huddled in the Station Hotel bar to save being torn to pieces by the mobs. At the government's call, the non-Arabic Kurdish tribesmen...
Beach v. Mountain. In Cuba, preparations by Castro's bearded veterans to invade the Dominican Republic are indeed under way. Colonel Alberto Bayo, sometime Spanish Loyalist soldier who trained Castro in Mexico three years ago, has been put in charge of strategy and training. The expedition leaders have been picked. But since hitting the beaches in Trujillo's well-armed police state could prove suicidal, the invaders would like to slip in through underarmed Haiti and set up guerrilla operations in the rugged mountains along the Haitian-Dominican border...
...revolution by army left-wingers had flopped. He then fled to Russia, worked as a hydroelectric engineer, became a member of the executive committee of the Communist International. Back in Brazil in 1935, Prestes sparked another insurrection; his men rose in the night and slit the throats of sleeping loyalist soldiers. He failed again and went to prison for nine years. Released, and playing the martyr's role to the hilt, he was elected Senator, but his loyalties remained wholly Red. "If Brazil should fight Russia," he said, "I would form guerrillas and together with my followers I would...