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Travel Notes--We were happy to receive word of the appointment of Mr. Myles L. Mace and Mr. Robert S. McNamara of the original Stat School civilian faculty, to Captain. Both officers are on active duty overseas. Mr. Harry Hausen and Mr. Vigo Nielson are on duty in Florida, while both Mr. Jackson Glover and Captain Ross F. Jones are in Miami selecting the students of Class 8-43, due here April...
...Besides the homing Altmark and Baldur, the British and French last week intercepted and captured two out of six Nazi ships trying to slip home from Vigo, Spain. Germany's first and big Altmark revenge was torpedoing the destroyer Daring with loss...
Actually, I suspended no civil processes in any instance. The courts remained open and functioned in a normal way. Troops were sent to Sullivan and Vigo counties as a symbol of the authority of the State and its determination to preserve order. Over a period of time there was a progressive reduction of the number of troops until finally we had only one squad on duty, although martial law technically was continued...
...Italians will not leave at least until after the big victory parade in Madrid, many times postponed, now tentatively scheduled for May 19. The Condor Legion is expected shortly to return home by way of Vigo. But neither's going means the end of either German or Italian participation in Spanish affairs, and the fact that the Germans are leaving first does not indicate that they are abandoning Spain to their Italian partners...
...husky, sharp-witted Vigo fisherman Gonzalo, as to most other Spaniards, Magellan's reputation was ugly. When the rumor got out that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened...