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defends Coughlin's advocacy of bullets against dictators
German reaction; Dr Schacht believed to have made bilateral agreement to align mark
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. -- The statement of Secretary Morgenthau, announcing the part of the United States in the monetary agreement with France and Great Britain, follows in full:
repeats charges
1936Leroy Drumm, American sailor and songwriter (died 2010)[â ]
Leroy Maxey Drumm was an American bluegrass/country music songwriter who served in the United States Navy, in the 3rd Division as a sonar man aboard the USSÂ Soley (DD-707), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer and deployed to the Mediterranean from July 1956 to February 1957.
1936Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African academic and politician, 8th First Lady of South Africa (died 2018)[â ]
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela, also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, second wife of Nelson Mandela and convicted kidnapper and fraudster. During her political career, she served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, and from 2009 until her death, and was a deputy minister of arts and culture from 1994 to 1996. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) political party, she served on the ANC's National Executive Committee and headed its Women's League. Madikizela-Mandela was known to her supporters as the "Mother of the Nation".
1936Spanish Civil War: Lluis Companys reshuffles the Generalitat de Catalunya, with the marxist POUM and anarcho-syndicalist CNT joining the government.[â ]
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and included socialists, anarchists, communists, and separatists. The opposing Nationalists who established the Spanish State were an alliance of fascist Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.