Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Napoleon I decreed the Code which today is still the basis of French law, and the Emperor made no bones about saddling French women with various legal disabilities of which many a virile soldier would approve.* Last week several of these shackles were struck off by a bill which originated in the Senate, was passed into law by the Chamber. It did not give French women the vote, did cancel at one stroke the network of laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child...
...Radio Queipo has probably done ten times more harm to the Rightist cause than any Leftist propagandist. He is a typical, swashbuckling Spanish braggart of the old school, whereas the Rightist President is a serious, close-lipped cogitator of current Fascist theories of government. Francisco Franco started out with soldier simplicity to create simply a "Government of Order," last week obviously had not fully made up his mind what form of state Spain ought to have. If the potent British friends of Franco should have their way, and if he should win, Spain would be given a constitutional democratic Monarchy...
...Japanese were bent on butchery. They were not to be content until they had slaughtered every soldier or official they could lay hands on. . . . One Japanese soldier stood over the growing pile of corpses with a rifle pouring bullets into any of the bodies which showed movement...
...story, such as it is, concerns an international munitions king who employs a soldier of fortune as his go-between in China because he learns that the daughter of a Nicaraguan official whom he has murdered is living in Shanghai...
George Sanders, as the soldier of fortune, is a severe disappointment, and serves only to focus attention on Miss Del Rio, who has been permitted variations on her old role as the femme fatale. She is hown consorting with sinister Orientals, attempting to shoot Mr. Sanders down in cold blood, driving about Shanghai in a Buick cabriolet, which does credit to Director Eugene Forde and in an excellent sequence she is shown fighting her way through a terror-stricken mob during an air-raid. Perhaps the most enjoyable scene, however, is that in which she renders a blues song...