Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...described was Communist "General Gomez," commander of the Loyalist XIII Brigade, later chief of staff of all the International Brigades. He was really Hans Zaisser, born in 1893 in the Ruhr. In World War I, Zaisser fought as a German noncom. Later he joined the Red military organization (M-Apparat), was a leader in the 1923 abortive uprisings in the Rhineland. When Hitler came in, he fled to Soviet Russia...
...title story, a Spanish Loyalist, prisoner of the fascists, is offered his life if he tells where a Loyalist leader is hiding. In the cemetery, he answers contemptuously-naming the most unlikely place he can think of. That is just where the fascists find their man. Intimacy is the story of a frigid wife who leaves her dull, impotent husband to go away with a lover, changes her mind in a burst of muddled pity for her husband and returns to a loveless marriage...
...corpse of the CBS correspondent, an outspoken opponent of the Greek Loyalist government, was found floating in the Gulf of Salonika on May 16, just a few days before he was to have returned home to accept a Nieman fellowship at Harvard. His hands and feet were bound and there was a bullet hole in the back of his head...
...marched on Rome in 1922 Vidali got away to Moscow, for three years of study. In 1926, as Emilio Sormenti, he turned up in the U.S. and in 1927 fled to avoid deportation. Ten years later, in the Spanish civil war, he was Carlos Contreras, commissar of the Fifth Loyalist Regiment. After Spain he was based in Mexico...
Konitsa's Loyalist Colonel Valadas seemed to think that United Nations support was more of a hindrance than a help. "We are fighting this war with our hands tied," he complained. "Our soldiers are not allowed to get closer than two kilometers to the Albanian border, but we have to take losses from shellfire from guns across the frontier. We have to wait for the U.N. people to come and look through their field glasses and scribble down a note. That's a hell of a way to fight...