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...Germany and Italy are allowed to resort to open intervention, and the rout of international morality is made complete, Great Britain and her satellite France are to blame. No greater blow could have been dealt the Spanish Republic, and the front of constitutional democracies in general, than the non-intervention pact which raised the ideal smoke screen behind which Hitler and Mussolini could do their work...
Again and again Madrid proletarians were driven in mad, screaming retreat, but again and again their shattered lines reformed to attempt fresh resistance with Spanish stubbornness, then suffer another rout. Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness. The steep-banked Manzanares River still lay between him and the capital and he knew its six bridges were heavily mined, but along with attending to military details he was also ready with his own White police force and his own skeleton force of civil servants ready to install them in the Government buildings which...
...rain at South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame redeemed itself for last fortnight's rout by Pitt, by nosing out Ohio State...
...balloon bearing the legend "It can't happen here," and raised shortly after the fifth touchdown, expressed the sentiments of many amazed Harvard fans who had sat through more than one gloomy rout in recent years...
...Dixon the wave continued unbroken. Started by Talmadge's failure in September it reached a climax in the crushing defeat of the Coughlin carbon-copy, Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, of Louisiana. This worthy successor to the mantle of Huey Long, revealed his true colours when, blinded by the rout of his forces, he turned to obscene and filthy language on the streets of New Orleans and was thrown into jail; what power he ever had ended for ever...