Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catalonian front Rightist troops advanced 40 miles along the mountainous French border to within ten miles of the tiny State of Andorra. They controlled at week's end nine of the twelve main roads from Spain to France. Barcelona Leftists again purged suspected Rightist sympathizers, two cinema theatres being necessary to hold one night's haul. Leftist organ La Vanguardia philosophized that such measures "repugnant as they are to a spirit of liberalism, are justified by the circumstances...
Three Regimes. In Barcelona determined Leftist Premier Juan Negrin clarioned "Fight on!," telephoned to Madrid's famed old General José Miaja appointing him military dictator of Southern Leftist Spain. Its area this week was 60,975 square miles; that of Premier Negrin's own Northern Leftist Spain 9,725 square miles; while the area of Rightist Spain was 125,900 square miles...
...Marc Rein, an anti-Stalinist writer who served in a Catalan factory as an engineering expert "disappeared" from his Barcelona hotel nine months ago, has not been heard of since...
...Barcelona correspondents got a more authoritative statement from Battalion Lieutenant Alvin Cohen: "Honeycombe behaved badly and ran away, finally coming to me in Barcelona, begging to be sent back to America. I threw him in jail instead, to think it over, and then sent him back to the Brigade. Now he has run away again." Lieutenant Cohen called the figure of 8,500 Americans killed, wounded and missing in Spain given by Mr. Honeycombe "highly exaggerated." Barcelona Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews again cabled as the total U. S. enrollment in the People's Army the figure...
...university. We best understand the events of the past week if we realize that they are paralleled on a national scale by the reactionary attacks on the C.I.O. and the New Deal administration. It is also important to note that the bombing of women and children in Barcelona and Canton today is being carried on under the same guise of fighting Communism...