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Serrano Suñer was educated in Italy, where he absorbed his Fascist ideas. He married the sister of Franco's wife. Under the Republic he was an obscure Govern ment lawyer, but when the death of General José Sanjurjo made Franco leader of the Rightist revolution Serrano saw his chance to impose his ideas on the politically uneducated Generalissimo. Lean, tanned and photogenic, Serrano has a driving nervous energy. His was the idea to fuse Spain's heterogeneous Rightist elements - Carlists, Monarchists, Traditionalists, Fascists - into the Falange. While the soldiers fought at the front, he organized...
...Government of Louis-Adolphe Thiers was afraid to stay in Paris, where the left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between them more than 40,000 people. Among the Commune's victims were two hapless generals, Claude-Martin Lecomte and Clément Thomas, shot as "enemies of the people"; Archbishop Darboy of Paris and Curé Deguerry of the Madeleine, with four Jesuit fathers; batches of right-wing hostages (see cuts). In 1871 the Germans who occupied France were interested spectators. This year they may even have an interest in encouraging disorder...
...First to be convicted under this law was David Vanoni, editor of the Italian monthly La Scquilla. He was sentenced to 20 months' imprison ment by the Supreme Court for an article he printed in January criticizing Uruguay's action in connection with the scuttling of the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee (TIME...
...does hereby reaffirm its belief in the honesty and integrity of Brother William Bioff. . . ." Dusting out of Louisville, Mr. Green rushed to New York City to beg the gar ment makers (International Ladies' Garment Workers Union) to come back into the A. F. of L. fold. President Dubinsky's terms for rejoining: i) elimination of the penny-a-month tax which...
...twofold object: "First, he wanted to divert the attention of the American people from difficult and involved inner political problems. . . . Second, by the creation of war opinion and through rumors about the danger threatening Europe, he wanted to get the Amer ican people to accept an enormous arma ment program...