Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nationalist leaders insist on a unified Syria, instead of two independent states; 3) Turks in the Antioch-Alex-andretta Sanjak, near the Turkish border, demand the creation of a third independent state (TIME, Feb. 15 et ante); 4) Moslem Kurds seize every opportunity to raid Christian villages in the northeast; 5) fierce Druse tribesmen make periodic pillages in the fertile valleys of Lebanon...
Meanwhile, northeast of Madrid, Rightist forces have pushed a long finger down from Zaragoza toward Valencia in the hope of cutting the communication line between Madrid and the sea. Theoretically responsible for this Teruel east front is the Leftist city of Barcelona, second largest in Spain, but Barcelona has been so busy with its bloody squabbles between Anarchists, Communists, Socialists and Left Republicans that it has been disgracefully lax at the front for almost a year...
...nothing of General Emilio Kleber (TIME, April 5), the hard-bitten proletarian warmaker dispatched from Moscow when it seemed Madrid was about to fall. Some have hopefully opined, "Kleber may have left Spain." Last week, according to United Press, General Kleber openly assumed command on the Huesca front northeast of Madrid. Same day Leftist war planes went into action, dueling above Huesca province in one of the great air battles of the war. At one time more than 100 ships were going for each other in the sky, ten were shot down, and it had been sufficiently demonstrated that...
High over the rolling mountains northeast of Burgos, a twin-motored Rightist plane dodged last week through thick patches of fog. It was far from any battle front. A young shepherd on a hillside idly watched it come out of the clouds. Few minutes later he stumbled excitedly into the little village of Briviesca. The plane had crashed into the mountainside.* Help was wanted...
...Heinkel and Junkers bombers, proven inferior to the Russian planes called chato (snub-nosed) by the Loyalists. On the advice of German aviators and with the approval of Generalissimo Franco, General Mola ordered the stupidest move of his entire military career: a punitive air raid on Guernica, 12 miles northeast of Bilbao...