Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chapter was last week tagged on to the saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rebel hands while fighting as a mercenary for the Loyalist Air Force in July 1937. Ambassador Claude Bowers, back from Spain for good, said that the famous letter Harold Dahl's pretty wife, Edith, wrote to Francisco Franco, enclosing an interesting picture of herself and begging clemency for her husband, never reached the very married Generalissimo. His staff officers handed the picture around and "passed judgment." according to the New York Daily News, "on this and that." Then they...
...more than two years they lived in rebel territory, organizing the peasants to blow up trains, block roads, out communications, and harass rightist front lines...
Early this week General Miaja announced for the third time in six days that the revolt against him had been crushed. For the third time, however, the old "Savior of Madrid," whose military acumen was never rated very high, seemed likely to be mistaken. The "rebel" forces had been cleared out of the centre of Madrid, but they were still said to be holding important outskirts with 30,000 men. Furthermore, aid to them was on its way from other fronts. The chances were that the Loyalist forces, within plain view of their common enemies, would fight each other until...
...meant what he said. When a British food freighter, the Stangate, was intercepted by a Franco warship and escorted toward a Rebel port, the British destroyer Intrepid overtook the convoy and forced the freighter's release. The Erica Reed, U. S. relief ship to Loyalist Spain, moved out of Valencia unharmed...
...daily $185,000 bill can be met for a long time by expropriating the treasures the Loyalists deposited and shipped to France months ago. General Franco would like the money himself. He has hinted that he thought the refugees' care was not his baby. Rebel Spain has, in fact, made the refugee problem a bargaining point with the French Government. Furthermore, it is not likely that the dictator is any more eager to have back almost a half-million militant Republicans than they are to return to his dictatorship. General Franco's Catalan border was closed last week...