Word: aragones
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What the Leftist Government could do to forestall this, last week it did. Besides fortifying almost the whole 300 miles of the Aragon front from the French frontier to Teruel, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin prepared to move his Cabinet, lock, stock & barrel to Barcelona. For this there were reasons political, mechanical and military...
...lines, tremendous advantage should France make good her repeated threat to open the frontier for volunteers and munitions, but it would also make a flank attack on the Rightist stronghold of Saragossa possible. To Generalissimo Franco the threat to Jaca had an even gloomier significance: it meant that the Aragon Front, consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football with their adversaries between the lines have been replaced by trained troops eager...
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...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's northern army pecked gingerly at the remnant of Asturian militiamen still holding out at Gijón on the Bay of Biscay last week, otherwise Spain was as quiet as the tomb it is rapidly becoming. From Madrid there was no word, on the Aragon front both sides seemed exhausted after the Leftist capture of Belchite. The war was going on, but the real scene of action had switched to a small sedate town on the shore of Lake Geneva-Nyon...
...exchange news if any. There is news aplenty, but except for a pushover job, such as the taking of Santander, the correspondents are kept a good eagle's flight away. In the recent heavy fighting around Madrid and in the big push now under way in the Aragon front, both the Rightists and the Leftists were in agreement that correspondents were not wanted at the front. But 400 men. even under restraint, can gather considerable information and when pooled it generally provides an adequate account. Next problem...