Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire effectiveness of the Leftist Government has been in the series of compromises making it possible for a mixed salad of political parties to work in some sort of harmony. Immediately behind last week's Cabinet crisis was the brief Anarchist revolt in Barcelona of fortnight ago (TIME. May 17). Premier Largo Caballero and President Luis Companys of Catalonia are both secretly determined to put the Anarchists, most hot-headed of Leftist groups, in their places, but the Anarchists are politically potent. The mere possibility of an unfavorable Cabinet revision caused the Socialist . labor union, U.G.T.. to announce...
...been in & out of jails much of his political career, has long fought for Catalan independence, speaks of Spain as "the Iberian Peninsula." His technique with his spluttering allies is to promise them everything with the greatest goodwill. This worked moderately well for many months in keeping peace in Barcelona, but did nothing at all to help the hard-pressed Leftist armies fight the war. President Companys was too busy keeping peace at home to send many men to the front...
Suddenly last week the Companys technique did not work at all. Late at night telephone communications with France were mysteriously cut. Hours later the story began to filter out of Barcelona that Anarchists had revolted against the Companys Government. Almost instantly jumbled barricades sprang up along the tree-lined Ramblas. The streets echoed with the Carong! Carong! of machine guns, the Hahp! of light artillery. Immediate objective of the Anarchist Black-&-Reds was the Barcelona telephone exchange, a building almost as imposing as the telephone skyscraper of Madrid. This they seized and held for seven hours. Hero of the revolt...
...unity to face the common foe, warned that the Catalans were leaving the way open for a raid from General Franco's Rightists. No such raid came, but before peace was restored over 300 people had been killed and according to reports the Valencia Government, to police Barcelona, had had to withdraw 12.000 badly needed troops from the Aragon front. Heretofore careful to avoid mixing in local Catalan squabbles, Valencia also moved in General Sebastian Pozas to be military commander of Catalonia...
...week's end, stubborn Anarchists still held many small Barcelona suburbs, but they had lost more than men. Luis Companys reshuffled his Cabinet, reduced the Anarchist membership to one, and took away from the party the important post of Minister of Defense, refilling it with the more moderate Antonio Sese, Socialist, who was then promptly killed by a stray bullet as he was leaving a Cabinet meeting...