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...week's end Fascist Mola was forced to withdraw many of his troops from the Guadarrama front to tackle a dangerous situation in his rear. San Sebastian and Bilbao were still in Loyalist hands. With hostilities ceasing in the Barcelona region, Loyalists might be able to launch an attack at his rear. Out of the ground to defend these Basque cities for the Loyalists poured the Communist miners of Oviedo, hurling homemade bombs of dynamite, slashing with knives. General Mola's attack was beaten...
...jangled in the captain's cabin. Washington was calling with urgent orders. All leaves were to be canceled. Most of the Annapolis midshipmen aboard on summer training cruise were to be transferred to other warships. The ship and the Coast Guard cutter Cayuga were to proceed to San Sebastian immediately to rescue U. S. citizens from the inferno of Spanish civil war. Under way, the Oklahoma's petty officers doubled up in their cabins, and sailors cleared out the crews' recreation room for an emergency nursery. Plowing down the Bay of Biscay watch officers worried...
...Spanish Foreign Legion, parts of the Civil Guard, peasants whose priests had told them about Bolshevism, hired Pistoleros and boys and girls in their teens just shooting for the fun of it. It was these adolescents who killed the pregnant wife of the Norwegian Consul at San Sebastian as her trained nurse was helping her into an ambulance. That was pure, crazy REVOLUTION and it lapped and slavered at Madrid two ways, up from the South under hot-headed Original Revolutionist General Francisco Franco and down from the North under calculating, professional General Emilio Mola...
Soon more than 30 rescue ships dispatched by anxious governments to take their nationals off the frying pan of Spain were in its harbors. Before the Oklahoma could reach San Sebastian, the French destroyer l'Indomptable and the British destroyer Verity had already arrived, hustled all foreigners away who wished to leave. None was more shaken than five Swiss tourists who had been lined up against a wall for execution by the Leftists until they could convince them that they were not Nazi agents helping the Fascist revolution. Word finally seeped down from Ambassador Bowers. He was marooned...
...ever held. Bidding with minute, professional nods, Lord Duveen and more than 200 other experts and spectators saw the 460 Oppenheimer drawings knocked down in three afternoons for some $500,000. Outbid by Lord Duveen on the Foucquet portrait, Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries got a Study of San Sebastian by Filippino Lippi for $6,825. London's Colnaghi & Co. paid $21,525 for Leonardo da Vinci's tiny Rider on a Rearing Horse...