Word: barcelona
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...Barcelona, the capital of more or less autonomous Catalonia (through which supplies for Madrid enter Spain in a steady stream), local President Luis Companys umpired a heroic political dogfight in which the Cabinet of this one of the Spains fell. At last Barcelona's quarreling hot anarchists & communists and warmed-over socialists & republicans grew so helplessly embroiled that most of them seemed relieved when President Companys agreed last week to add the Premiership of Catalonia temporarily to his other offices and worries. Dispatches reaching Valencia said that what had chiefly been accomplished at Barcelona was to "oust the anarchists...
...These four powers resolved to take over the whole blockade from midnight of March 6. Each ship will fly in addition to its national flag a "neutral blue pennant with a yellow cross." Italy will patrol the eastern coast of Spain from the French frontier down past Barcelona and Valencia to Alicante. From that point Germany will patrol the southeastern coastline to Malaga. British ships will patrol from Malaga through the Strait of Gibraltar to the beginning of the Portuguese coastline. Over the Spanish-Portuguese land frontier 130 "international observers" will keep watch. French and British ships jointly will pick...
...more his style, sailed for Spain. An American promoter in Europe,Lew Burston,had been recommended to him as an able manager. Instead of calling on Promoter Burston, Devil Montanez attracted Promoter Burston's attention to himself by winning three fights-all knockouts. Promoter Burston appeared in Barcelona, signed a contract as manager of Devil Montanez...
...British-Italian pact are these explicit words: "So far as Italy is concerned the integrity of present territories of Spain shall in all circumstances remain intact and unmodified." When Der Führer's correspondent asked II Duce if the setting up at Barcelona or elsewhere in Spain of a Soviet State would "destroy the status quo in the Mediterranean," which Britain and Italy have just pledged themselves to abide by, the Dictator snorted: "Obviously...
Valencia was still claiming to be the seat of Spanish Democracy this week but in its allied district of Catalonia the official Barcelona censor passed dispatches describing it as "Western Europe's First Communist State." Reports from both Spanish sides indicated that Stalin has now sent some of his best bombers and pursuit fighters to Spain, and that these Soviet craft are extremely fine machines, greatly surprising the Germans who had supposed until last week that it was enough for them to send such "old crates" as the French have been sending and as Madrid has been buying...