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...longer in the military news is Leftist General Sebastian Pozas (TIME. Feb. 14), whose army ran in panic on the Aragon front. Instead there are Leftist chiefs like Enrique Lister, leader of Madrid's famous 5th Regiment, nucleus of the People's Army, in charge of the defense of Catalonia, switched recently to the Valencia front. Generalissimo Franco's most trusted henchmen now are Generals Miguel Aranda, Rafael Garcia Valino and José Varela, each in charge of one of the three prongs of the Valencia drive. Last week General Varela's Castilian Army Corps...
...hour curfew was enforced in Jerusalem. Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The British battle-cruiser Repulse steamed into Haifa Harbor, landed marines. Eleven air squadrons stood by for bombing work. From Egypt arrived 1,600 British soldiers. With violence continuing, the British ordered the nth Hussars, an armored-car regiment, from Egypt to reinforce the 10,000 soldiers, police and constabulary...
Economically it is a plan avowed to provide relief; implicitly it intends to regiment industry...
Last week, Confederate John C. Smith, 108, of the 46th Georgia Regiment, told how during the battle he reached into his mouth and removed the bullet that had knocked out two of his teeth, paused again to clap mud on his skull where another bullet knicked it, and fought on. Dr. Capers C. Jones, of Birmingham, Ala., 91, barked at Secretary of War Harry Woodring: "Give me your hand. I ain't going to bite you." "I'm sweet 16 and never been kissed!" shouted Yankee Daniel Daffron, 92, of Forest Grove, Ore. Said his harried attendant: "Have...
...Fort Myer, Va., the Army's Third Cavalry Regiment last week lost its bugler. Plumpish, firm-lipped Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, 46 (The Army reckons him 48 because he lied about his age when he enlisted 30 years ago), doffed his uniform, retired. With his retirement, history turned a page. He sounded taps for the Unknown Soldier, for many an -Army brass hat, for Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Leonard Wood, William Howard Taft...