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Last month the long-awaited showdown began. General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano whose radio broadcast was a nightly comic turn during the War, made a speech declaring that the Army, which had done the fighting, should also do the ruling-not gun-shy, upstart politicians (like Señor Serrano Suñer). The brash General was promptly removed from his command of the South. Also dismissed was Juan Yagüe, pudding-faced idol of the Moroccan corps. If the purge of Army malcontents had been completed it would have meant the expulsion of Rebel heroes like Generals Solchaga...
...Foreign Minister General Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, formerly the strongest Cabinet spokesman of the old Army point of view. The anti-Axis Army, in short, would in future have to confine its remarks to the parade ground, and leave control of Spanish foreign policy to the upstart politicians...
...Cowes is not only for aristocrats. By ferry and excursion steamer sporting England flocked to the Isle of Wight last week. What they came to see this year was the yachting duel between Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, Britain's No. 1 yachtsman, and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the American upstart who trounced him in U. S. waters in two challenges for the America's Cup (1934 and 1937). This year both were racing twelve-metre boats (half the size of Cup boats). Along the Esplanade as well as within the Royal Yacht Squadron gates, the No. 1 controversy...
...competitor of Alcoa. What he did want, the Government said, was to reach through Aluminium Ltd. into the world aluminum cartel and share international trade with Swiss, German, French and British aluminum monopolies on a nice, friendly basis, with an ugly throat-cutting all laid out for any upstart competitors...
Next we come to "upstart Brown", not a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate baseball circuit, but actually the next thing to it. Optimism is again running high in Brown athletic circles, because high hopes are held for Coach Jack Kelleher's 1939 Varsity nine...