Word: andalusia
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Spain Picasso was born in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, 57 years ago last October 25, of a Basque drawing teacher named Blasco Ruiz and an Italian mother Maria Picasso. By the Spanish order of patronymics his name was Pablo Picasso y Ruiz, and he so signed his earliest pictures...
...people of Andalusia, in Southern Spain, who voted Leftist when Spain had elections, have usually been cool toward the Italian "volunteers" brought in by tens of thousands to help Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain's civil war. Last week, as some 12,000 Italian infantrymen prepared to return to Italy in a "token" withdrawal of Italian troops, controlled Rightist newspapers and spokesmen whooped up enthusiasm to show Rightist Spain's official gratitude to Fascist Italy...
...generals seized power in Old Castile and Navarre, in the north, and in much of Andalusia, in the south. Their chosen leaders in order of authority were General José Sanjurjo, Marquis del Riff, General Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first...
...Quintanilla drawings show war's effects on the streets of Madrid and Almeria, on the villagers of Andalusia surprised by bombing and strafing airplanes, on Moorish, Italian, German and Spanish prisoners, on wounded men in hospitals. Seeming as delicately bitten as etchings, they were done with a fine quill pen in a uniformly unexcited style. Ruins of masonry, the broken bodies of the dead, the brutalized bodies of the living, all were recorded with the same hard outline and shading, the same careful, slightly grotesque composition. By this apparent monotony and coldness Artist Quintanilla made a profile of Spain...
Dividing Spain's war into five "fronts": Aragon, Teruel, Madrid, Estremadura and Andalusia (see map) is merely a journalistic device that has been adopted by both sides. There is a sixth and quite separate front, that in the province of Asturias on the Bay of Biscay where last week Rightists were crawling over tremendous mountains ever closer to Leftist Gijón, but the five consecutive fronts form a writhing battle line that snakes a full 1,000 mi. from the French frontier near Jaca round Madrid and ends in the Mediterranean Sea between Málaga and Alicante...