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Travels of a Marine. The Smiths have been travelers, like all Marines: they lived in Bremerton, Seattle, Manila, Cavite, Shanghai, Puerta Plata, Norfolk, Newport, Port-au-Prince, Quantico, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Long Beach, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego. In one two-year stretch they moved 14 times...
...appointed day, in the big, black Mercédés-Benz given him by Hitler, the Caudillo slid down the Puerta del Sol and Carrera de San Jerónimo. In the Puerta del Sol. he was greeted by trumpeters, and again in front of the Cortes...
Every house in Madrid last week displayed either the flag of Nationalist Spain or a picture of Francisco Franco, or both. Along the broad, tree-lined Gran Via and the busy Calle de Alcala leading to the Puerta del Sol, from new flagpoles fluttered thousands of the red-&-gold flags, flanked by the emblems of Spain's single Fascist party, the Falange Espanola, and of the traditionalist Requetés. Each pole bore the single word...
...that in Spain's year of peace few war scars had healed. And if anyone wanted to see what Western Europe had a good chance of looking like after a year or so of total war, Spain was the place to see it. A few miles from the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's hub, lie the desolate ruins of suburbs where fighting raged for more than two years. The $50,000,000 University City is a pile of rubble, and in West Park, where trenches still remain, only 33 trees are left standing. In Barcelona and Bilbao, Spain...
...main White bombardment opened at 8 a. m., shells dropped into the office of Brown Boveri Co., scaring the charwoman who was awaiting the arrival of the staff. Other shells plunked into the famed Oriental Café in the Puerta del Sol, heart of Madrid. The Ministry of Interior, police headquarters and the French Embassy were all barely missed by screaming shells, but a small one landed in the onetime Royal Palace of Alfonso XIII, now the Palace of the President. Don Manuel Azaña, who fled last month not to Valencia but to Barcelona (TIME...