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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silently over Madrid and for the first time since Spain's civil war began the capital, with its refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, cowered and shuddered beneath the impact of live bombs. So sudden was this first attack that there was no time to sound air-raid warnings, and before thousands of pedestrians and motorists on the streets could be herded indoors, the skies were raining shrapnel. Over 125 were killed, including 70 children playing in the grounds of a schoolhouse. Three Bombs fell on the Plaza del Callao, Madrid press district. To add to the Radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A Matter of Hours! | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Women dashed through the streets, waving market baskets, taking part in a drive to enlist men who had failed to go to the front. At week's end came the first daytime air raid on the capital. Under orders from White Generalissimo Francisco Franco no effort was made to drop heavy bombs. White aviators contented themselves with cutting didos in the air, ripping off belts of machine gun bullets at the sidewalks of Madrid. When the planes had gone and the racket ceased the streets were dotted white with leaflets calling on Madrid to surrender before the real hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Sidewalks of Madrid | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

What were the Bolsheviks up to? Had Moscow deliberately tried to wreck the new Monetary Peace during its first hours by a Russian bear raid on sterling? In the excited timbre of Secretary Morgenthau's voice when he first spoke there was perhaps a hint of suspicion of this sort, but most U. S. Treasury officials soon calmed down to a more comfortable theory. After all the Moscow comrades who run the Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fallacy or Victory? | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

There is much that is obscure and troublesome in the new tri-partite agreement between France, Britain, and the United Stats. It was, for example, confusing and irrelevent for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to drag the Russian herring across the trail and speak of a "raid" upon the pound when the Soviet Bank was merely carrying on a pre-arranged commercial transaction of minor proportions. And neither is it especially clarifying to approach the agreement from the political side, to glory in the "offensive" upon dictatorships by democratic countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OF HERRINGS AND CURRENCIES | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...nevertheless burying some 250 corpses per week. In jail sat the once debonair Duke of Zaragoza, the playboy engineer who sometimes took the throttle of King Alfonso's private train, with the Madrid proletariat clamoring outside last week for a chance to throttle him. After a White air raid on the capital Premier Largo Caballero had to use all force at his disposal to keep his enthusiastic friends from massacring all Whites held in Madrid jails. Announced by the Government without further explanation were the ''sudden deaths" of General Enrique Marzo of the Spanish infantry, millionaire Count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 'Doing Wonders | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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