Word: northern
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President de Aguirre admitted the fall of Zamudio and Derio. suburban villages, cried, ''Bilbao never has been captured ... I swear to you it will not fall now." Back and forth over bloody Mount Santo Domingo on the northern shoulder of San Marina Ridge swept the hand-to-hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud...
...also Paul van Zeeland is anxious to better relations with The Netherlands. Previous leader of the Oslo Group is elderly, conservative Hendrikus Colijn, Premier of The Netherlands. His was the idea of reviving the 1930 group. After much sly spadework it was on his invitation that members of the northern nations met quietly at The Hague on March 3. Premier Colijn has not the youth, the personality, perhaps even the ability of Paul van Zeeland. But he is an important figure. If Paul van Zeeland is quietly to replace him he is very anxious to keep on the best terms...
...virtually in retirement at Pamplona. One of the first leaders of the rebellion was General José Sanjurjo who was also killed in an accident, flying from Lisbon. Mola was among the first to recognize the leadership of Francisco Franco, who gave him command of practically the entire northern sector of Rightist activity. At the time of his death, Mola was responsible not only for the siege of Bilbao but for the siege of Madrid as well. With no capable successor to hand, Generalissimo Franco split Mola's command in two. To the Bilbao front went General...
Louis Alexandre Taschereau, 70, for 16 years Premier of Quebec, ousted last year (TIME, June 22). narrowly escaped drowning when his boat tipped over during a fishing trip in Northern Quebec. Clinging to his upsidedown craft until he had removed his mackinaw and high boots, he swam ashore...
...Philadelphia last week the Northern Baptist Convention wound up its annual gathering (TIME, May 31) after paying its respects to its late benefactor, John D. Rockefeller (see p. 65), and declaring itself in favor of Government-fixed minimum wages, Government-limited incomes. Elsewhere African Methodists (Albany, N. Y.), United Lutherans (Manhattan), United Presbyterians (Chicago), Catho lic Daughters of America (Elmira, N. Y.), Knights of Columbus (Geneva, N. Y.), members of a Movement for World Christianity (Rochester, N. Y.), a Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (Nashville, Tenn.) deliberated, prayed, resolved. Most news worthy conventions of the week...