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The Falangistas intended to kill War Minister General José Varela, twice winner of Spain's Grand Laureled Cross of St. Ferdinand, who relieved the siege of the Alcazar in Spain's preview of World War II. The grenade killed four people, but not General Varela. He demanded...
It was not in poor Poland that they placed their faith. Poland's dictator. General Edward Smigly-Rydz, bravely declared: "We shall win by the Holy Passion of our Lord. He will lead us to victory.'' Poland's passionate Catholics and her skull-capped Jews, marked...
Anticlimax. In Raleigh, N.C., Slayer John S. Baldwin, awaiting execution, learned the Governor had commuted his sentence, promptly sent a message of protest, threatened to sue him for "interfering with the court's action."
After the execution of the regimental review, the smartly marching men were complimented for their precision by Captain Barker and by Commander C. A. Macgowan, officer in charge of the Indoctrination and Communication Schools. Company Five was adjudged the best marching unit by officials in the reviewing stand in a...
As reports came of the shooting of 96 French war prisoners for refusing to work in a German camp, of the execution of ten Poles for sabotaging railroads, of the slaying of three Norwegians for sheltering Russian marines, tight-lipped Dutchmen buried their five dead.