Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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From Paris went five American aviators : Fred Ottesen, Marcus Clark, George Folds, Vincent Schmidt (who fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War) and Charles Stehlin (who flew for Franco...
...France, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin last week got a fan letter from the Western Front. "Now that our life, which can be taken away at every instant, has become more sharpened," wrote a soldier in striving English, "I want to say my admiration for the ones who have enjoyed my civil time...
Before its recent civil war, Spain carried on a thriving trade with France and Great Britain. With France trade was nearly always balanced, but with Britain Spain usually had a big export surplus, which gave her pounds sterling to use in world markets. The civil war finished all that, but long before Generalissimo Francisco Franco's final victory, Spain had a substitute. Nazi traders moved in in numbers and organized an extensive, mutually satisfactory German-Spanish barter trade...
...civil war's end Generalissimo Franco, still holding a grudge against Britain and France for their long refusal to recognize his Government, snubbed British and French commercial agents, although what Spain needed to recover was trade and more trade. The French sent their distinguished soldier, 83-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, to deal with the reluctant Spaniards, but even he had to cool his heels while waiting for audiences with Spanish officials...
Lined up for her first at-homes were Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin, 56, Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder, 42 (to elucidate James Joyce's Finnegans Wake). Next one will feature Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill, 65, who first titillated her old salon with Freud's teachings. The young people, suggests Mabel, seem somehow warier nowadays. Her main interests today are science, psychology, religion. Radicalism, believes Mabel, is "old hat." Still at Taos is Husband Tony. Explained Mabel: "He is coming for a visit in February, but he doesn't like New York. . . . He is an outdoors...