Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rosenberg, who appeared last week to be the most authoritative pro-Madrid figure next to its military defender, General Jose Miaja, a strict professional in horn-rimmed spectacles. The so-called Madrid Government had dispersed (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 16). Its president, Don Manuel Azana, a Republican, was in Barcelona last week and its Premier, Francisco Largo Caballero, a Marxian, was in Valencia with the rest of the Cabinet. In a manifesto they claimed to be supported by the Soviet Union and by the Mexican Republic...
With this implicit backing, Generalissimo Franco sent off diplomatic notes to the Great Powers, announced that he may at any time bombard Barcelona to check the entry of Soviet arms and munitions at that port. In the House of Commons, amid chanting of "Shame! Shame! Shame!" by Laborites, the Conservative and Liberal majority roared "Hear! Hear!" as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reacted to the Franco note thus...
...Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines. The Red militia outnumbered the White Army last week and had received many additional airplanes. In Barcelona, the capital of Radical Catalonia, where he had fled a month ago, Spain's President Manuel Azaña was able cheerfully to boast last week: "The whole of Catalonia is concentrating on efforts to fight for the Republic!" That this was no idle bombast was evident when...
...Ministry of Interior, police headquarters and the French Embassy were all barely missed by screaming shells, but a small one landed in the onetime Royal Palace of Alfonso XIII, now the Palace of the President. Don Manuel Azaña, who fled last month not to Valencia but to Barcelona (TIME...
...stamp meanwhile in Paris made life miserable for Premier Lêon Blum who continued his harassed attempts to remain neutral. In French Communist circles it was said that Communist Deputies supporting the Socialist Premier's coalition or "Popular Front" had received orders from the Moscow Comintern that Barcelona, the great stronghold of Spanish Radicalism, "must be saved at any cost, even if it means French intervention in a form which would provoke war with Germany, and irrespective of the fate of Madrid?' It was even said in Spain that Joseph Stalin might admit to his Union...