Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other two were supposedly in German waters last week: the Deutschland had been bombed by Loyalist Spanish airmen off Iviza, Balearic Islands, the Admiral Graf Spec by the British in their raid on the Wilhelmshaven base...
Bombing battleships in motion on the high seas was proved possible and, to the vessel, disastrous, as long ago as 1920 by the late General "Billy" Mitchell of the U. S., who bombed the condemned ex-German battleship Ostfriesland off the Virginia Capes. During the Spanish Civil War, Loyalist bombers put the German Deutschland out of commission. First British air raid of World War II was on battleships anchored in Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel, with the sinking of one and damaging of another battleship claimed. Last week the Royal Air Force retorted to the Nazis' North...
...fields, especially the speed and versatility of tanks, the accuracy of aerial bombing, the range and speed of airplanes. Yet the most effective innovation of the Spanish civil war was a crude anti-tank weapon- bottles of gasoline wrapped in burning rags which were hurled at Insurgent tanks by Loyalist infantry. And the record for long-distance artillery fire is still held by the monster guns with which, during World War I, the Germans shelled Paris from a wood 70-odd miles away...
...Italian maneuvers were not his chief interest last week. Since he took charge of her armies, France has acquired a possible new border to defend or cross, the border between France and Spain. Having vainly urged Léon Blum to pitch in with the Loyalists and lick Francisco Franco in 1936, General Gamelin was now doing the next best thing. He was inspecting the 250,000 interned Loyalist troops quartered in French concentration camps. If Generalissimo Franco should squeeze an attacked France from the south, Generalissimo Gamelin would undoubtedly arm his 250,000 Loyalist guests and turn them loose...
Died. Alfonso Laurent Cik, 38, Yugoslav decorator, whom Spanish Nationalists accused of decorating Loyalist prison cells with weird designs that changed under dazzling lights, drove prisoners mad; at the hands of an official garroter; in Barcelona...