Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Rebel Spain did any hint of Italian participation come, but from Italy itself. The Fascist press attacked France for still supporting the Loyalists, but saw no inconsistency in boasting (Loyalist communiques substantiated the boast) that four Italian divisions (about 40,000 men) were heroically conquering Catalonia. These divisions included famed Black Shirt detachments. Italian correspondents wrote from Spain that among the Italian soldiers were veterans of the offensives of Málaga, Bilbao, Santander, Aragon...
Also from Italy came details of material help to Generalissimo Franco. Dictator Benito Mussolini's controlled press told how, in the last two months, new equipment had been sent from Italy to Spain, including more machine guns, better artillery, bigger reserves of munitions. Previously described was the Italian "Legion of the Air" in Spain, working out of Majorca, and its system of "chain bombing of murderous intensity" over Loyalist territory...
...fact that the Czech leading lady, Lida Baarova, was a particularly admired protegee of Dr. Goebbels. Last week, as Dr. Goebbels lay sick abed with what was officially reported as intestinal influenza, Lida Baarova's friendship with the Little Doctor made a sensational tale in the U. S. press...
...Have a Free Press? (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) debated by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Publisher Frank E. Gannett before America's Town Meeting...
...police he had never invented anything. Because of the long interval between Pathé's bankruptcy and the disclosure of its president's business technique, and because Pathé's Tanenzapf had often entertained members of the Chamber of Deputies at dinners and previews, the French press promptly scented another Stavisky scandal...