Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What is the source of all this excitement? It arises from rumors regarding the landing of German volunteers in Spain. As long as we only heard of Bolshevist volunteers arriving in streams in Barcelona the Madrid situation, in the opinion of Western European journals, was not at all 'threatening...
...things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...
Dali. Artist Dali was born in Figueras near Barcelona in 1904, as a child developed a strong persecution mania and a wholehearted admiration for the works of his friend and countryman, Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dali entered the Academy in Madrid, was quickly expelled for insubordination. As an art student he reached Paris in 1927 when surrealism had yet to make any headlines but was the talk of the Montparnasse cafes...
This week the Largo Caballero Cabinet claimed to be "resuming the offensive on all fronts." With what they have been able to buy in France and have been sent by Russia, the Spanish Premier at Valencia and Spanish President Manuel Azaña at Barcelona got their Red militia going in drives on Talavera de la Reina, El Escorial and Toledo near Madrid and, on the north coast of Spain, started a drive toward Burgos which, since the sixth day of the war, has been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo...
Europeans took this to mean that His Majesty's Government would make every effort to keep British ships clear of Barcelona; would continue their thus far successful efforts to keep the French Cabinet of Radical-Socialists, Socialists and Communists quiet; and were tacitly at least on the side of Burgos rather than Madrid...