Word: welshness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh. The massed bands and drums were in the centre, and, flashing silver, blue and scarlet, in the southeast corner mounted troops of the Royal Horse Guards and Life Guards...
...Joseph C. Peden; Peter E. Pratt; Edward P. Prince; Philip L. Reed, Jr.; Matthew D. R. Riddell; Edward P. Roberts; Gerald P. Roeser; James A. Rousmaniere; Edward Rubin; David P. Sheppard; Philip C. Starr; Kenneth W. Sterling; Clifton D. Stevens; John H. Waite, Jr.; Lester H. Watson; Herbert F. Welsh; Roger L. Werner; and Hamilton H. Wood...
Back to the roots of recorded history go the connections between Spain and Ireland. On an English dockside fortnight ago, Welsh-born David Lloyd George exaggerated mildly when he cried: "I am a Basque!" (TIME, May 3). Anthropologists agree that physically the Basques are indistinguishable from the members of the Celtic race, the Welsh, the Irish, the Bretons and the Scots...
...Celts, an ancient people, started somewhere near the banks of the Rhine, spread loosely through Europe, crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, and reached Ireland and England only a few years before the Roman invasion of 55-A. D. They have a basic language. Today linguists agree that the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and Breton languages are related to the Celtic. The Basques, however, a mountainous folk, were little influenced by the Celtic invasion of Spain in the 6th Century B. C., have today a completely unrelated language...
Espana. British freighters meanwhile were running General Franco's blockade of Bilbao with impunity, making preparations to evacuate as many women and children as possible to France, England and Scandinavia. Out of Bilbao harbor last week came the British freighter Knitsley, loaded with Basque iron ore for Welsh steel mills. Six miles offshore the Rightist destroyer Velasco and the Espana, only battleship in General Franco's navy, steamed up, the Velasco firing shots across the Knitsley's, bow. With helm hard alee the Knitsley started to run back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held...