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...been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French Morocco. At 1:30 a. m. Madrid suddenly came through with a seven-word official statement: "The Government is master of the situation." These words were the first intimation to the outside world that revolt had broken out in Spain...
France too, has a lifeline in the Mediterranean. It crosses Britain's practically at right angles, passes very close to Minorca. To defend her formidable Maginot Line of fortresses against Germany, France must be able to draw troops and supplies from North Africa, from Algiers or Oran to Marseille. Transports on that line pass within plain sight of Minorca...
...STIRR (Oran Raber) New Orleans...
...Algiers, eager Communist and Socialist elements joined with Arabs in turbulent antics such as flinging stones at random among a junketing party of mayors from all parts of Algeria. Result: a proclamation of what amounted to martial law and further turbulence at Constantine and Oran. In Paris demonstrative war veterans filled the Champs Elysées with shouts of "Blum to the gallows!" and "Down with the Jews...
France's best was Andre Japy, who in a 100-h. p. monoplane made round-trip flights from Paris to Oslo, Tunis and Oran, Algeria, a four-stop flight from France to French Indo-China. The awards for Italy were divided among Mario Stoppani and two others. Stoppani set a seaplane distance record of 3,103 miles between Trieste and Berbera in British Somaliland...