Word: anarcho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stillborn," "reactionary," "suspended in the air," "counter-revolutionary," were some of the epithets flung last week by the Anarcho-Syndicalists. most extreme of Spain's Leftist groups, at the newly-installed radical Government of Socialist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin (TIME, May 24). Stocky, 48-year-old Dr. Negrin- born in the Canary Islands, educated in Germany, onetime professor of biology, Finance Minister in the Largo Caballero Cabinet-was not disturbed by these howls. The crisis forced on his predecessor's Government by a revolt of Anarcho-Syndicalists in Barcelona had been smoothly overcome, and Dr. Negrin...
...Negrin knew that his immediate job was to prevent the Anarcho-Syndicalists from sabotaging the united Republicans, Socialists. Communists and Basque Nationalists represented in his Cabinet. In his favor, the Madrid General Federation of Labor, most potent Socialist-Communist labor group, threw in its lot with the new Government and the menace of Anarcho-Syndicalists, largely industrial workers, shrank proportionately. His other and bigger job-winning the war- he tackled by giving the strongest politician on the Leftist side, onetime Bilbao newsboy Indalecio Prieto, sole charge of the War, Navy, Air and Munitions Ministries. For the first time...
...left out and Largo Caballero remained silently aloof while a new Cabinet was formed by stocky. 48-year-old Dr. Juan Negrin, Socialist Finance Minister under Premier Largo Caballero. The new Cabinet, reduced from 19 to nine members, was immediately accepted by President Manuel Azaña, but the Anarcho-Syndicalist Union (the C.N.T.) declared it would "not collaborate." Madrid's defender, capable General José Miaja, avoided the whole...
Rugged individualists like most Spaniards, the Barcelonians have decked their buildings with many a discordant banner: the five-barred red-&-yellow flag of Catalonia, the red-yellow-&-purple of the Valencia Republic, the red flag of Communism, the black-&-red banner of Anarcho-Syndicalists. There are a number of other parties of varying opinions, all demanding a share in the Government. Nowhere else in the world are Communists so decisively ranked among the conservatives. That is because in Catalonia, Communists believe in discipline, as opposed to the free-for-all philosophy of the pure Anarchists, largest and most troublesome group...
...With only eight dead, 32 wounded, the election was called "the most peaceful in years." Results: At week's beginning, the Left seemed to have raised its Cortes membership from 107 to at least 230, largely by sweeping the rebellious province of Catalonia where the ordinarily non-voting Anarcho-Syndicalists voted for the first time. The Right had dropped from 228 to less than 200. The Centre had snaked out some 65 Deputies, with the Right-Centre coalition claiming a majority of the Cortes' 473 members. As usual, the election aftermath was turbulent. A "state of alarm...