Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor E. Allison Peers, of the University of Liverpool, reviewed the subject of "Spain Today and Tomorrow," at a public lecture in Emerson D last night under the sponsorship of the Department of History and of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Jackson is on the secretarial staff of the Quaker organization which fed 2,000,000 children in Germany after the War, and now is carrying on rescue work in Spain. The Friends also maintain work camps for college graduates and undergraduates in Flint, Michigan, the Tennessee Valley, Ponncraft, Pennsylvania, and on the delta of the Mississippi River...
While in general agreement with your editorial LOCKING THE BARN DOOR, I would like to take exception to certain statements. You call the Harvard petition urging the President to raise the embargo on Spain "ill-timed and misdirected" and urge Harvard men "instead of petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic, to take a more constructive line...
...later, by a process of wish-thinking, won the war several times for the fascists; and now so gleefully sounds the funeral dirge of the Republic. The facts should be understood. Catalonia itself is not yet conquered, while the MadridValencia sector remains entirely firm. In the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, all but a very narrow strip of seacoast was taken, only to be won completely back within two years...
...never too late to amend a tragic blunder and enable a sister democracy to exercise its legal right of purchasing arms from us. While it is true that this should have been done long ago, it required the unbridled aggression of the past year in Austria, Czechoslovakia, China, and Spain, finally to convince millions of Americans that sooner or later, unless the aggressors were stoped, the peace and security of their own democracy would be threatened...