Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Princess' rejoicing came former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany this week, to take tea with Her Royal Highness and her husband at Soestdijk. Besides a large bunch of white and red roses the exile from Doorn brought visible assurance that his late rumored serious illness was exaggerated...
...post-mortem cables on why the Communist bluff failed to move Socialist Blum last week, leading Paris correspondents agreed that the execution in Moscow of Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven generals of the Red Army (TIME, June 21) has profoundly jolted French political opinion, even to some extent among French Communists. It has always been a question in Paris whether the Red Army was good enough to make the present Franco-Soviet military alliance a worthwhile check to Germany-the eternal enemy. If the news from Moscow means that the Red Army has been immensely weakened by execution of its ablest...
...Comrade Moisel Kalmanovich. He until two months ago was Commissar for State Grain and Livestock Farms for the entire Soviet Union, has now been jailed on charges that he ordered Soviet scientists to castrate breeding bulls and inoculate cattle with cholera germs. Finally White Russia's recently executed Red Army commander, General Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich, was described last week as having been "little short of a fiend incarnate," while the railways, textile mills and collective farms of White Russia were reported "infested with Fascist spies and wreckers...
...long last, on the 80th day of siege, last week Bilbao, the city that has scorned capture for 700 years and the motto of whose red, white and green flag was INVINCIBLE, fell. At the end hardly a shot was fired. But every bridge across the Nervión River had been blown up as was the great Guecho arms factory, one of the prime prizes in Franco's drive on Bilbao. As was expected, Anarchists ran berserk for a few hours before the city was abandoned, murdered many a suspected Rightist sympathizer. As the Rightists moved...
...Italian victory and complete revenge for the rout at Guadalajara, but in Bilbao itself Rightist General José Fidel Davila, knowing the growing unpopularity of all foreign troops with Spaniards of either side, was careful to keep the Black Arrow Italian division well in the background. It was the red berets of the Carlist Royalist militia that first appeared in the streets, patrolled the city...