Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the counting, calculated to take 30 days, a ''good faith" withdrawal of 10,000 men would be made from the side found weaker in volunteers and a proportionate number would be withdrawn from the opposing side. (Estimated number of foreign fighters in Spain: with Franco, 40,000 Italians, 10,000 Germans; with the Leftists...
Czechoslovakia retaliated with the accusation that not only during last week but for the past month 34 German planes had been observed on the wrong side of the border...
...Germany claimed that Czech engineers had been detected at the German side of a bridge near Linz trying to fire it with straw and gasoline. The Czechs answered that the bridge had been destroyed six months...
Last week, with the "extremists" howling that the long-sought capture of Suchow would be a pointless victory unless the army was allowed to press on to Hankow, China's makeshift capital, Premier Konoye was persuaded to their side. Promising a "quick victory," he reshuffled his Cabinet, called to three key posts two of the nation's most influential military men and the top-rank Japanese financier. The Premier urged upon the new Cabinet a "renewed determination to attain Japan's fixed objective (complete conquest) in China...
From the Leftist side in Spain, New York Times Correspondent Lawrence A. Fernsworth, temporarily in Marseille, reported last week that agents of the Leftist military police, dissatisfied with the slowness of civil judicial authorities in dispatching alleged members of Barcelona's "Fifth Column" (Franco supporters within the city), recently "started to take the law into their own hands by seizing prisoners at night and executing them in isolated spots. They had executed between 20 and 30 persons before their activities were ended...