Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed out. He said that when the Spanish Republic was established in 1933, President Azana tried to reform the army and to cut down expenditures which were three times as much as those devoted to education. The army began to plot against the Republic, and this culminated in the Civil...
...Olum's letter to the Crimson has convinced me that any respect which he professes for the principles of free speech has been overshadowed by the delusion that he is Harvard's sole standard-bearer of American civil liberties...
...rest of the Spanish people in the somewhat piteous end of the King "with his evil-looking nose and famous bad breath." First woman to be divorced in Spain, she promptly married Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, who was to become Chief of the Loyalist Air Force during the Civil War. Under the tepid, professorial new Republic she lived in Rome and Berlin, where her husband, as Air Attaché, learned much of value, which, however, did not interest his Government...
...last half of her book is devoted to the Civil War, which she prefers to describe as a fascist invasion. Though she keeps her account simple and personal, she gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that...
...This is a matter which transcends civil liberties," Edward C. K. Read '40, Lampy president thundered last night. "Our forefathers came to America in search of religious freedom. The traditions of a great and liberal institution are being flagrantly violated by this autocratic dictation of our Thanksgiving rights...