Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deputies of Leftist Spain's Cortes evaded Rightist bombers long enough to hold a parliamentary session last week in the ancient monastery of Montserrat above Barcelona. They were mildly surprised to hear a message congratulating them on a "stirring example to all democratic peoples" signed by 60 members of the U. S. Congress, whose Neutrality Act they blame for keeping them short of munitions. Far from mild was the reaction felt in Washington when the Spanish Embassy released the message and Catholic groups over the U. S. indignantly demanded an explanation from the 26 Senators and 34 Representatives...
Next day Rightist raids killed 600 noncombatants, mostly women and children in the residential districts of Barcelona...
...Leftists' sudden reversal of policy was brought on by three days of the bloodiest Rightist bombing which Leftist cities have suffered since the destruction of Guernica. Over the sea from Majorca came a squadron of black-winged Italian bombers. High over Barcelona they loosed enormous bombs on the crowded, industrial and residential sections of the city. In five minutes over 400 men. women & children were killed, many of them literally torn in fragments, and twice as many were wounded...
Giant Negro Singer Paul Robeson drove from France to Barcelona, Spain. Purpose of his visit: to go to the front lines, where a huge loudspeaker will throw his voice, during a lull in fighting, to Leftist and Rightist alike...
...pirate" submarine last week appeared in the Mediterranean to sink without warning the Dutch freighter, Hannah, bound for Valencia with a cargo of beans and wheat. Last week also Rightist planes from the island of Majorca roared in five times to bomb Leftist munitions plants on the outskirts of Barcelona. But elsewhere the Spanish war was almost at a standstill. Even the snows of Teruel had melted to make an impassable torrent of the Guadalaviar River, an impassable morass of most of the lower valley...