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This week the Largo Caballero Cabinet claimed to be "resuming the offensive on all fronts." With what they have been able to buy in France and have been sent by Russia, the Spanish Premier at Valencia and Spanish President Manuel Azaña at Barcelona got their Red militia going in drives on Talavera de la Reina, El Escorial and Toledo near Madrid and, on the north coast of Spain, started a drive toward Burgos which, since the sixth day of the war, has been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo...
...three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines. The Red militia outnumbered the White Army last week and had received many additional airplanes. In Barcelona, the capital of Radical Catalonia, where he had fled a month ago, Spain's President Manuel Azaña was able cheerfully to boast last week: "The whole of Catalonia is concentrating on efforts to fight for the Republic!" That this was no idle bombast was evident when 6,000 Catalonians under debonair Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti marched to the relief of Madrid. Also fighting with the beleaguered...
...Oriental Café in the Puerta del Sol, heart of Madrid. The Ministry of Interior, police headquarters and the French Embassy were all barely missed by screaming shells, but a small one landed in the onetime Royal Palace of Alfonso XIII, now the Palace of the President. Don Manuel Azaña, who fled last month not to Valencia but to Barcelona (TIME...
Since President Manuel Azaña of Spain was almost hourly expected to flee from Madrid, the Mexican Congress last week sent a message of sympathy addressed "to the President of Spain wherever he may be." This arrived as the President was sitting in his small office at the Palacio National in Madrid, declaring that "The Spanish Republic will maintain political and religious liberty!" The Spanish Republic was actually at its last gasp and the President's wife had fled to the seaport of Alicante, haven for refugees from Madrid. There she was taking care of child victims...
This-week President Azaña and three Cabinet Ministers, whether or not they had "fled" from Madrid, arrived unexpectedly at Barcelona and drove about this Mediterranean seaport, cheered by its radical populace...