Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overlook the fact that a famous sailor, Cris Columbus by name, was one of the greatest politicians of all history. When he set sail from Spain, he didn't know where he was going. When he reached his destination, he didn't know where he was. When he returned to Spain, he didn't know where he had been...
...simmered down again last week to a series of indecisive thrusts, first by Leftists, then by Rightists, each offensive gaining a little territory, none promising to be very big. A Leftist drive across the Segre River in Catalonia quickly died out, while a Rightist thrust in Estremadura, southwest Spain, was still 15 miles from its goal-the precious Almadén mercury mines...
...fulfillment of many military observers' three-month-old prophecy of a Spanish Rightist victory before summer's end, Newsinterpreter Walter Lippmann wirelessed to the New York Herald Tribune from Paris that Great Britain and France had now decided that they want a "military stalemate" in Spain, feel that it offers the "best chance of a constructive solution of the Spanish problem." Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "Once it were made clear to both sides in Spain that neither would be able to conquer the other, an armistice might be arranged...
Like Tennis Player Baron Gottfried von Cramm who talked too much about his political opinions while touring the world, General von Fritsch, who opposed sending German aid to Rightist Spain and more than once told Hitler that Germany is not yet sufficiently prepared to fight a war, was smeared by accusations of homosexuality. Whereas Cramm was sent to jail, Fritsch, of a size too big to jail, merely had to resign as head of the army (TIME...
...sizable investments in almost every hotspot in the world: Spain, China, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Germany, Rumania, Japan, Poland. In Shanghai the war cost it 10,525 of its 50,000 phones, but most have since been regained. In Spain, where I. T. & T. has an investment of $67,000,000, about one-fifth its total, the system is still in good order because both Rightists and Leftists need it, but whether I. T. & T. will ever again get the $3,000,000 annual profit it used to make is no more certain than the war's outcome...