Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Frederick was still in Paris last week, confounding Fascists and having the time of his life. Son David and Nephew Jimmy left Spain last autumn, Jimmy to marry lovely, dark-headed Actress Mary Liles in Manhattan...
They were fighters in a war in which the U. S. is neutral, veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, organized in January 1937 to fight for Loyalist Spain. The brigade mustered altogether 4,000 U. S. citizens. Last September the Spanish Leftist Government disbanded it. Those who filed last week from the third-class gangplank of the Cunarder Ausonia to a Manhattan dock had left behind some 2,000 killed and missing, 250 captured at Belchite, Brunete, many another battleground. (Others are still in Spain or convalescing in France, and 870 veterans had already returned...
...most active defender of Loyalist Spain in the U. S., the Communist Party had a big hand in recruiting the brigade, slipping its rookies into Spain and naming the outfit (for Abraham Lincoln is now a Communist hero by adoption). But many other men of any or no political faith, who saw in Spain a battle for democracy, also backed it. And one who put up $10,000 to help repatriate Lincoln brigadiers was Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch...
...Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid, where he found David recovering and insistent upon more fighting. Father Frederick wanted to fight, too, but his age (55) and his ulcers made it impracticable. So he retired to Paris, where he did his fighting with more conservative...
Frederick Thompson once forced his way into the hospital with a batch of wounded. His activities also involved a skirmish with U. S. Ambassador William Bullitt. Because U. S. passports for ordinary travelers are not valid in Spain, U. S. citizens who wanted to fight there had to get in and out as best they could. On the way home they often showed up in Paris without passports. Mr. Thompson had to pull many a wire before Ambassador Bullitt would treat them as extraordinary travelers, entitled to re-enter the U. S. without credentials...