Word: militiamen
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...whomever belonged the glory of the victory, it was a pretty complete one. The Basque militiamen and the Asturian miners, those Iberian Celts who have been fighting each other or someone else since the first Century A. D., were digging in for a last siege in the mountains near Gijón. Gijón, a little cod-fishing port became the capital of what was left of the Leftist side of the Basque Republic-a narrow strip running 125 miles along the Bay of Biscay. In this strip there was no food, no trade. Jose Antonio de Aguirre...
Basis of the Italian plan was to do something quickly to restore Italy's battered military prestige. Santander, once the favorite yachting centre of the Basque Riviera, is less protected by mountains than is Bilbao. There are not more than 5,000 exhausted Basque militiamen to guard it, and though Valencia has been able to sneak a few planes through to Santander in recent weeks, a service it could not perform for Bilbao, the overwhelmingly superior Rightist forces on the Basque front ought to be able to capture Santander in less than a week, any time the order...
Diplomacy was not helped by a clash at week's end outside Shanghai between Japanese sailors and Chinese Peace Preservation militiamen near the Hungjao Military Airdrome. One Japanese officer and a Chinese sentry were killed, a Japanese seaman was reported missing. Angry little Japanese Bluejackets, burning to avenge the death of their comrade, landed under cover of darkness to reinforce the permanent naval garrison in Shanghai. More than 60,000 Chinese from the teeming native quarter, expecting a repetition of the Japanese retaliation bombing of the city in 1932 (TIME, Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.), screamed and fought...
Since the Ohio constitution makes no provision for martial law the militiamen were nominally at the command of the local sheriffs. Sheriff Elser of Mahoning County, mortally feared & hated by Youngstown strikers, promptly clapped nearly 200 unionists in jail for carrying concealed weapons and on "suspicion." What was worse, he left them there without arraigning them until a judge, outraged by such "willful failure" to grant the prisoners their constitutional right to a hearing, gave the sheriff a thoroughgoing public reprimand...
...found good news awaiting him. With back-to-work sentiment hardening into effective political pressure, Governor Davey announced that the Right to Work was as "sacred" as the Right to Strike. To his troops flashed orders to protect all workers who wanted to return to their jobs. The same militiamen who had received such a warm welcome when they marched into the Mahoning Valley early in the week were now roundly damned by the union as public strikebreakers...