Word: tetuan
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Anxious to preserve the ape colony, the British recently brought in two males from Tetuan. They were called Monty and Ike (for obvious generals). Inexplicably, Ike died. For Monty, a female was flown from Algiers in a bomber. Her crate was labeled "On His Majesty's Service...
...sunny Morocco, impatient wives and sweethearts of Moors fighting under Rightist Franco demonstrated at Tetuan, screaming: "We want our men back!" precipitated a bloody 24-hour riot put down by 130 executions. Meanwhile, the mere presence in the Balearics of Son Bruno Mussolini (TIME. Nov. 8) provoked so many bomb raids as Leftists tried to exterminate him, that last week Spanish Rightists were vastly relieved when Bomber Bruno flew back to Italy with part of his Fascist squadron...
...signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed them came stones c widespread trouble among General Franco's men: In Spanish Morocco 30 officers of the Tetuan aircraft post were shot for conspiracy; at Malaga 20 Italian carabineers were lined up against a wall and at Algeciras a batch of non-commissioned Italians in the Pavia Regiment were mowed down for plotting General Franco's assassination...
...grammar schools, all the Ministerial posts are filled by generals." To this assertion the Ambassador countered by giving a complete list of the present Cabinet with the origin and profession of each member. Snappishly he concluded: "Total, nine Ministers, of whom three are generals [Primo de Rivera, Duke of Tetuan, Martinez Anido], and no one of them is a professor from the grammar schools...
Commander-in-Chief Berenguer of the Spanish forces in Morocco has been personally directing a series of operations which were reported last week to have completely dislodged the Riffian artillery which has been desultorily peppering Tetuan from the hills throughout the winter. The citizens of Tetuan have grown thoroughly tired of this endless haphazard bombardment, though it was featured by several interesting "freak shots," such as the escape of an old woman unhurt when a shell destroyed the sewing machine at which she was seated...