Word: andalusia
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With the sorrowing lyrics of James Joyce (see above), U. S. readers last week could compare a noted poem in a professionally heartbroken tradition. Ballads in the styles called cante hondo and cante flamenco had been made up and sung by guitarristas in Andalusia for centuries before Spanish poets began consciously to exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament...
South of Madrid the driving Leftists advanced within 65 miles of beauteous Seville, "Queen City of Andalusia," but Rightist forces avoided a "bottling-up drive" launched to entrap them. Some 10,000 Italians were reported defending this rich orange-growing region and the nearby sherry country. According to London trade figures released last week, England continues to buy almost exactly as great a volume of oranges and sherry as last year from "Business as Usual" Spain-the only difference being that this year the British have had to pay cash. North of Madrid last week the Rightist offensive of General...
Once English-speaking correspondents started poking around Málaga last wee they found several U. S. citizens and Britons to tell them what had been what during the Red rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
Held by the Revolution last week were all Spanish Morocco, the two largest Balearic Islands, whose political boss Juan March was contributing all the aid he could from Paris, and a great crescent- shaped swath of Spain swinging from Navarre around Madrid and down through Andalusia. The Government on the other hand held the region of Madrid, the east coast of Spain, part of the north coast and strong cities such as Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga...
Paradoxically in Seville and its languorous province of Andalusia the Revolution found itself embarrassed by enthusiastic assumption on the part of the local populace that it stood for restoration of the Monarchy. In charge of Seville, Generalissimo Franco had put General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, an officer so strongly Republican that he was forced to flee Spain during the reign of King Alfonso. Last week, although Generalissimo Franco had ordered all his forces to fly the flag of the Republic (which was the same as that flown by the Madrid Government they were fighting), General Queipo de Llano...