Word: caballero
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...grim and intense proletarian defender of Madrid, Premier Largo Caballero, and his Cabinet climbed into automobiles, drove rapidly away to Valencia on the seacoast 24 hours after he had declared, like a Chinese general: "Under no circumstances will I abandon Madrid alive! If the insurgents break through, I will shoot myself...
This impulse Premier Largo Caballero gave by fairly burning up the wires in a telephone conversation from Valencia with luckless General José Miaja who had been left behind to defend the capital. He rushed from the phone to issue a blustering manifesto: "Courage! Our victory is certain. My mission is to defend Madrid at all costs. You must give up your lives before yielding another inch of ground!" Meanwhile Madrid syndicalist newspapers excitedly explained the Government's flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice...
Unamuno, Stalin & Mussolini. Since Spain's best-known intellectual is the great Unamuno,it was heartening to the White cause this week that Premier Largo Caballero and his Valencians were arraigned as follows by Philosopher Mieuel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca : "The University, while not mixing in politics because of its spiritual mission extending through centuries of tradition, feels itself in duty bound to express in a virile manner its condemnation of the crimes of the [Caballero] Loyalists of Spain...
...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 and hostages...
With increasing despair the Radical Government saw the White Army battle its way within sight of Madrid. To meet the impending crisis Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was appointed "Supreme Chief of the Military Forces of Spain" and Julio Alvarez del Vayo "General Commissioner of War," in a two-way attempt to exercise political control over the Red Militia. As the White offensive rolled nearer & nearer to the capital, Madrid became a city of gloom and darkness. Gas for cooking and heating had been cut off. Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were...