Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cartagena seemed to prove Britain's assertion that Russia was supplying tanks, artillery and planes to Spain's Red Government, but practically none of this material last week reached the Madrid front. President Manual Azana of Spain and other Cabinet officers had fled fortnight ago to Barcelona and this week the London Times indicated that Premier Largo Caballero's jig was up, thus: "Great Britain now considers with less hesitation the prospect of recognizing the Government of Franco inasmuch as the Madrid Government has brusquely rejected the British offer to help in the exchange of prisoners...
This-week President Azaña and three Cabinet Ministers, whether or not they had "fled" from Madrid, arrived unexpectedly at Barcelona and drove about this Mediterranean seaport, cheered by its radical populace...
...accorded the privilege of a holiday at the waterfront while the Soviet steamer Kuban was loaded with clothes and food for Spanish Reds. Several Soviet steamers are now plying back & forth with this exceedingly tame assistance to Spaniards engaged in a death struggle for Communism in their country. At Barcelona last week the Soviet steamer Zirayanin landed 3,000 tons of foodstuffs amid a local celebration by the city's dominant Anarchists, Communists and Syndicalists...
Owing to a misunderstanding, foreign correspondents in Barcelona spent some time at Communist and Syndicalist headquarters looking for dumpy, old-time U. S. Rabble-Rouser Emma Goldman who is now a British subject and who, as they should have known, was at Anarchist headquarters. "I have come to Spain as to my own," cried Anarchist Emma to 10,000 Barcelona Anarchists. "Your ideal has been my ideal for more than 45 years. You are giving a shining example to the workers of the rest of the world...
...French Anarchist Emile Cottin improved an opportunity to shoot and wound Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau, who died in 1929 with one of the bullets still in his lung. Anarchist Cottin, who was reprieved from losing his head on the guillotine by Victim Clemenceau, was announced in Barcelona to have been killed fighting the Whites last week on the Aragon front...