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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cries of Arriba España! Viva Franco! The clenched fist became the upraised arm. Some 40,000 secret Fascist sympathizers -members of the Fifth Column-dropped their Republican disguise, took over the city even before the first of Franco's troops had crossed the Manzanares River and taken actual possession of Madrid. Out of hiding in foreign embassies and legations came hundreds of Franco partisans...
Pitifully few escaped. Old General José Miaja, Madrid's famed defender, flew with his staff from Valencia to Oran, Algeria. There he predicted that Republican rule would return to Spain "sooner than one might expect." Julián Besteiro remained in Madrid, was arrested, taken to Burgos and was expected to face a military trial early this week. Colonel Casado, chief figure in ousting the civil government of Dr. Juan Negrin from power four weeks ago, escaped to Marseille aboard a British ship. As his last official act he had issued a bogus proclamation to Communist leaders...
...royal entertainment for President and Mme Albert Lebrun in London's India Office fortnight ago, one of the entertainers (the saucy French actor, Sacha Guitry, who has often taken the parts of famous court intriguers) stepped up to Queen Elizabeth and murmured in a low voice, "I have a favor to ask of Your Majesty. I should be very grateful if you would persuade M. Lebrun to run for President again." The Queen said she would do what she could...
...course, I. R. A.'s eccentric machine has worked only so far as Step 2. The British people have been angered but not scared by the Army, which is illegal in both Eire and Britain. Last week's trial was the severest measure England has yet taken to keep the machine from working...
...Thweatt declared: "At the close of the talk, Capone's face seemed to radiate, and when I asked those prisoners to stand who felt the need and will to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, he was the first to rise." That this "conversion" had taken place, no one doubted. Said Prison Warden E. J. Lloyd: "Sure, the ministers do that all the time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd did know, however...