Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrifty Joseph Stalin belatedly bet another blue chip on the Spanish Loyalists last week in the form of ten splendid Soviet warplanes. Tons of other Soviet war paraphernalia have reached the Leftists in the past month via France. Amid wild cheering in recently bombed Barcelona, Soviet war birds in mass formation darkened the sky and last week the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory...
...southwest of Madrid the Leftists launched a furious offensive, intended if successful to cut those Rightist supply lines which run in from Portugal. At latest reports this offensive, designed to distract Generalissimo Francisco Franco from his onslaught upon Barcelona last week, had gained little...
Meanwhile the great Rightist offensive was doing well, but the caution of the Generalissimo continued strongly in evidence. The No. 2 city of Catalonia is Lerida, No. 1 being Barcelona, and last week Rightist General Juan Yague waited for three whole days with an overwhelming force before Lérida, while other supporting Rightist units on his left and right wings completed their scheduled gains. Then the Generalissimo ordered: "Proceed to take Lérida!" In a full day of savage street fighting, with Rightist tanks crashing down barricades, artillery pounding ahead, Lérida was taken...
...Generalissimo had thus won "The Key to Barcelona," as even the Leftists have called Lérida, but it was 80 miles to the keyhole. With General Yague just starting keyholeward this week, twelve assorted Rightist forces were all making unchallenged claims to sweeping victories all the way from the French frontier which was smothered with refugees, down to Teruel. A major Rightist drive hurled itself down the widening valley of the Ebro River, and with Leftists surrendering so fast that what to do with so many prisoners became an acute Rightist problem, the Generalissimo besieged Tortosa from the land...
...week the liner President Roosevelt cleared from Manhattan for Le Havre, France, with her holds jampacked and her decks stacked with lashed-on piles of heavy motor trucks and tractors easily convertible into tanks. The Spanish Leftist consul would neither deny nor confirm that all this was bound for Barcelona via Le Havre, but Leftist Manhattan dockworkers openly jubilated as they loaded the President Roosevelt, declared some of the equipment was lettered in Spanish. Should a "pirate submarine" sink the President Roosevelt, Spanish observers felt this would have its effect on U. S. public opinion...