Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From then on, reported Ambassador Bowers, the Rebels' problem was not how to keep him in jail but how to keep him out. He was given the freedom of Salamanca, but kept getting into trouble because of red wine rather than Red ideology. The city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck...
LONDON-Spanish Insurgent headquarters at Salamanca tonight broadcast an official announcement that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's advance columns had captured Blanes, the first town in Gerona Province to fall to the Nationalists...
...Oswald Pirow, lion hunter and air pilot as well as Minister of Defense for the Union of South Africa, returned to London after making the rounds of authoritarian headquarters (Lisbon, Salamanca. Berlin, Rome). Encouraged by the British Government to sound out Adolf Hitler on just how much colonial "appeasement" would satisfy him and to ask other powers how much of their colonies they would hand over, Mr. Pirow's trip turned out to be a flop. When the Jewish pogroms flared up, German stock in Britain fell to zero, and all thought of giving Germany anything...
This week Generalissimo Franco replied directly to a protest by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with a note saying that the Rightists bomb cities and towns "only when military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that...
...answer at all came for twelve hours, then from Salamanca came a broadcast...