Word: caballeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Largo Caballero: "We have balanced the budget...
Baron Bumped Off. Dead, apparently shot in the back by a Red Militia execution squad, was Baron Jacques de Borchgrave, First Secretary of the Belgian Legation in Madrid. Incensed at Brussels, the Government of His Majesty King Leopold III demanded $35,000 indemnity from Spanish Premier Largo Caballero, plus a Spanish apology and full military honors for the Baron. His corpse was dug up and the Baron de Borchgrave was found to have been killed by a pistol shot just behind the ear in the classic style of "Spanish bumping off parties" (TIME, Jan. 11) and Chinese executions...
...leaders, White and Red, delivered bombastic harangues all about the People, God, Culture, Communism and whatnot. White Generalissimo Francisco Franco had left the deadlocked siege of Madrid, flown south to sunny Seville and was starting an entirely new White offensive to drive the Spanish Cabinet of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, which fled from Madrid months ago, out of Valencia. Various airmen who flew for Largo Caballero before the bulk of his Soviet flyers arrived were trickling out of Spain last week. Said Chicago Airman Hal Du Berrier, reaching Paris: "I may fight in China next, Spain...
News from Spain itself last week featured such curious things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...
...Marcel Rosenberg, first Soviet Ambassador to the Spanish Republic, handpicked the Largo Caballero Cabinet . . . Although the people of Madrid know little about Russia it has become the fashion for them to do nearly everything in what they hope is the Russian manner. Government militiamen, receiving ten pesetas per day, eagerly purchase with their earnings peaked caps decorated with the Communist star, similar to those worn by soldiers in the Soviet Army...