Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to be killed-all,'' wailed Mr. Matthews' hotel chambermaid, after living through the first twelve air raids in barely 24 hours. A Barcelona drugstore clerk from whom Mr. Matthews was buying medicine for a headache, sighed: "Oh, for a plane to fly to France! I don't want...
Refugees and Grandees. Terrified Leftist citizens who made their way to the French frontier, hoping to be permitted to leave Spain, were being turned back meanwhile by Leftist guards. Perhaps because Anarchists were thought to have the best stomach for such work, the Barcelona Government sent the recently jailed Anarchist leaders, Rosique and Cot, up to the French frontier to hold it against all refugees. Meanwhile, the bombers over Barcelona began dropping leaflets: "SURRENDER, OR PERISH...
...Barcelona had definitely become too hot at last for two grandees of Spain, the Marquis de Urquijo and the Duke of Saragossa, who found themselves in Madrid on the day the war began, have since been living expensively but safely in embassy and consular premises of the French Popular Front Government. Into Barcelona harbor suddenly steamed last week two French warships, the Epervier and La Palme. These took off the Marquis de Urquijo, the Duke of Saragossa and 510 other Spanish Rightists, many robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite...
Protests. The texts of British and French remonstrances with the Spanish Rightists this week over the Douhetting of Barcelona were kept secret at London and Paris, but Secretary of State Cordell Hull blazed at Washington: "No theory of war can justify such conduct. . . . I feel that I am speaking for the whole American people...
...Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of danger on a diplomatic mission to France. Last June it let him return for six months of sketching along the front from Madrid to Teruel. After showing his drawings in Barcelona last December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship for the U. S. In a little studio on Washington Square near the house of his host, Writer Jay Allen, he has lately been doing his first painting in two years. A small, sombre, keen...