Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From China, James left for Spain after spending a few additional months in the southern part of China. he became a correspondent behind the Loyalist lines; in fact, he claims that every warring country had better look out if he should be its newspaper correspondent, because he infallibly seems to bring bad luck. Both armies with which he worked have been the losers...
...warfare. Ethiopia and China were little more than proving grounds. So far as is known, the biggest concentrated air bombardment to date occurred when new-type bombs whistled down on Barcelona New Year's Eve, 1938. At various times dozens of Fascist bombers operated in formation over Spain and, according to German accounts, as many as 800 attacked Polish fortifications in concert last month. But to airmen the world over this still remains white-chip stuff...
...Heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Venezuela (his childhood income was around $20,000 a year), this slight, hot-tempered, handsome young Creole aristocrat was the pampered darling of his family, at 17 began his conquests in the salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made his melodramatic vow to free the Spanish colonies in South America...
Germany's collaboration with Russia displeases a people nearly 100% Catholic. Moreover they were told less than a year ago that in Spain they were fighting Bolshevism. If a conflict of interests between Italy and Germany-Russia were needed, it could readily be found in the Balkans, long one of Italy's special spheres of interests and now claimed as the special problem of the Communist and Nazi dictators...
...into Spain, Bessie and his fellow volunteers had to climb over the Pyrenees one windy, cold night with small paper parcels as their only baggage. At dawn they stood exhausted on a peak, their city overcoats whipping their legs, and looked south for 50 miles over peaceful country. On the way down they met three women dressed in black. "When we passed we saw that they were poor peasants; one young, one middleaged, one old. They smiled and said, 'Salud! Salud Compañeros!' The oldest said nothing...