Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...anti-social are put to work on roads and rebuilding projects, guarded by officers with guns. There has been no demobilization of the Army because of fear of a new uprising. In fact, there is a shortage of trusted man power for the Army. Last week the Civil Guard and caribineros were incorporated into the regular Army...
...street fighting in northern Spain between Falangists and Requetés. That night three of the refugees slipped across the frontier with two submachine guns and one machine gun. Next day the entire Spanish battalion was in a ferment and the volunteers sat out on the beach singing civil-war songs and talking of mass desertion. The French prudently transferred the entire camp to Valbonne, north of Lyon...
...Protestant Episcopal Church numbers many a human pillar who has been divorced and remarried. Perennially the Church faces a question which will not be downed: What to do about such good people who get civil divorces, wish to remarry in church? The Episcopal canon on marriage, as liberalized in 1931, is still strict and specific: rectors may marry only those divorced persons who are 1) innocent parties in divorces for adultery; 2) innocent partners in marriages annulled for premarital cause. But not a few parsons, in dioceses with liberal bishops, marry divorcees anyway and get away with...
...play did well before the Civil War, but its unparalleled popularity really began afterwards, when its propaganda value was gone and the monkeyshines started. In the '70s and '80s barnstorming troupes (known ever after as Tom Shows) went to every tank town in the U. S., to places where even the circus never went, playing in tents, in showboats, in rooms over warehouses...
...week's end Bertrand Russell authorized the American Civil Liberties Union to appeal in his behalf...