Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopia, China, Spain and British seamen have been sacrificed on the altar of national self-love!" continued President Elvin. "Is Czechoslovakia now to be the next sacrifice? Why have not Britain, France and the Soviet Republic plainly told Germany that she must 'keep off the grass?' This brave people of a democratic country must not be thrown to the wolves. This may be Europe's last chance to prevent another World...
When, 17 months ago, foreign correspondents reported that the strategically unimportant holy Basque city of Guernica had been ruthlessly destroyed by German bombers in the service of Rightist Spain, ace French Newscommentator "Pertinax" (André Géraud) had a ready explanation. According to him, Air Marshal Hermann Göring of Germany ordered the bombing as an experiment of the effectiveness of the air attack...
Last week, reports from U. S. Army circles in Washington gave credence to contentions that the Barcelona raids had also been experimental. The new bomb, it was said, was a closely guarded German military secret. All that foreign military attachés in Leftist Spain had learned from a study of its fragments was that it was filled with exploding liquid air, was made of a material more durable and lighter than aluminum...
More complex than ordinary posters in that they interpret abstract political aims, the Renau montages are best on the simplest points. To illustrate Point Il, "Liberation of our territory from foreign military forces which have invaded it," the artist combined a silhouette map of Spain with a stormy night cloud, set against it a blasted tree gripping Spanish ground with talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble...
...friend the Judge takes a calmer view, says that all good conservatives were red-hot radicals in their youth. At last Jerry downs this bitter pill too, grants the young vipers his blessing, if not his comprehension, as they leave to join an ambulance corps in Loyalist Spain...