Word: caballeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Only one last road from Madrid to the sea was open last week, the 294-mile railway to Valencia. Having cut off the Capital from all other avenues of succor or escape, the White Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco were advancing with such vigor that Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet were daily rumored, via Rebel sources, on the point of flight. Disciplined effectiveness suddenly appeared in the roving mobs of Premier Largo Caballero's proletarian militiamen. These have fought bravely enough time and again, but too often only in their own good time and place. This week they...
...Madrid, with advancing White Armies closing in all around and only some 30 miles away as the week opened, the facade of the "Spanish Republic" was noticeably crumbling. At Geneva last week the diplomatic representative of Premier Largo Caballero, "The Spanish Lenin," made shrill speeches about Democracy being at stake in Madrid, but uncensored dispatches brought by courier pictured the Capital as ruled in fact by proletarian Terror. Estimating that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons have been executed by Government firing squads in Madrid or simply butchered in their homes and on the streets by mobster adherents...
...appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually a prisoner. Desperate, the Spanish Cabinet issued a manifesto appealing to the "people of Madrid" to somewhat paradoxically "organize and perfect the defense of the Capital, so as to be prepared for somethings even so incredible as the capture of Madrid...