Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that even the men who filed the cables grew bored with them. Week after week, month after month they had sent out the same stories: General strike threat. . . . Syndicalists riot in Barcelona. . . . Alfonso denies responsibility. . . . Fall of Government imminent. . . . Street fighting in Asturias and the Basque provinces. . . . Andalusian peasants rebel. . . . Generals arrested. . . . State of alarm declared. . . . State of alarm lifted. . . . All these things were true but the average Spaniard took his daily siesta, went to the bullfight every Sunday, ate a seven-course dinner at 10:30 at night...
Another general strike was declared month ago. As usual, the Catalans in whose northeastern province lies Spain's chief port, Barcelona, started it. They objected to the National Government's interpretation of certain land laws. The strike lasted a day and then collapsed, but suddenly in Madrid, the word went out that the National Government was in serious danger. Reporters hurried to the office of Minister of the Interior Salazar Alonso, found him gravely dotting a huge map of Spain with colored pins: one color for Civil Guards, other colors for police reserves, airplane squadrons, cavalry, infantry, artillery...
...Barcelona as usual went off completely halfcocked. Without waiting for definite news of the progress of the revolution elsewhere, impetuous Luis Companys. President of Catalonian Generalidad, climbed out on a balcony of the Government palace and proclaimed Catalonia a separate Republic. Government troops rushed down from the fortress and promptly besieged him. A few hours of firing and Luis Companys and the Catalan Republic surrendered together...
Bloodiest spots were Asturias, Madrid, Barcelona...
Neither Max Schmeling, onetime world's heavyweight champion, nor old Paulino ("the Basque Woodchopper") Uzcudun; a 12-round bout; in a three-ring boxing carnival in Montjuich Stadium at Barcelona, Spain...