Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain, the prize War baby was Juan March, who had been born of poor peasants on the island of Majorca. Before the War, March was a small Barcelona trader who sold onions and chickens during the day and smuggled tobacco and silk by night. His smuggling flotilla came in handy as early as October of 1914, when he made a killing by cornering all available pigs on the coast of Spain and selling them to the Entente powers for a fantastic profit. Shortly his smuggling fleet had become the Compania Transmediterranea. This company supplied food to the Entente nations...
...preoccupations can there be other than the desire to make money, and more money, and to keep it . . . with no thought for the world that crowds steadily in upon this would-be tight little island." He was in Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best of my knowledge and belief, no Jew who has escaped from the hell of life in Germany owes anything whatsoever to this meeting...
Died. Alfonso Laurent Cik, 38, Yugoslav decorator, whom Spanish Nationalists accused of decorating Loyalist prison cells with weird designs that changed under dazzling lights, drove prisoners mad; at the hands of an official garroter; in Barcelona...
...persuade the former Loyalists to go back home, much of the news that filtered through the tightly censored French-Spanish frontier was not calculated to encourage mass reentry. Eighteen permanent tribunals were said to be working in Madrid trying Loyalists; there were said to be 500 arrests in Barcelona and Madrid daily; 2,000 awaited trials in Madrid alone; 688 have been executed; 20,-ooo were in a concentration camp near Alicante. Although there were accusations still outstanding against 1,000,000 persons in former Loyalist territory, the police appealed to the public for more denunciations of those guilty...
From the tortuous, terraced streets of Chungking, frightened Chinese saw doom in the blood-red discs on the under side of raiders' wings before ever a Japanese bomb had been dropped. The people of Madrid and Barcelona learned to duck whenever they saw the red-&-yellow wing insignia of Nationalist ships overhead. Fighting tribesmen in Palestine know they must take to cover whenever attack planes sweep down on them with the blue-white-&-red wing targets of Great Britain...