Word: caballeros
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...Negrin's Cabinet decided to stay in Barcelona for the time being, but announced that they had taken all "necessary measures to guarantee against any eventuality the continuous administration of the State and the work of government.'' In other words, the Negrin Cabinet, unlike the Largo Caballero Cabinet which hastily fled from Madrid to Valencia in late 1936, decided to remain at their posts until there could be no doubt that the city was lost. They would then flee...
Star witness for the defendants was Francisco Largo Caballero, former Premier of Leftist Spain, who testified during the trial that the Poum did not instigate the May 1937 uprising in Barcelona, that Poum Party executives were "sincerely anti-Fascist," not the reverse, as charged by the prosecution...
...Leftist supreme military tribunal-not the Barcelona civil court before which P.O.U.M. was simultaneously being tried. Among witnesses called to brand Colonel Villalba as a sellout to Rightist Spain was the Chief of the General Staff of Leftist Spain, General Vicente Rojo, and its early Premier & War Minister Largo Caballero...
...Spain's ever-diminishing Leftist side, political mortality of statesmen and generals was also high. Hard-boiled Socialist Francisco Largo Caballero, miscalled the "Spanish Lenin," first Minister of Labor under the Republic, former president of the Bricklayers' Union, was Premier for eight months, then was rudely ousted and forgotten. Former newsboy, ex-publisher Socialist Indalecio Prieto, builder of the Leftist People's Army, writer of brutally frank war communiques, for a year Minister of Defense, took his marching papers after the disastrous Aragon defeat last spring...
Defense of the capital lay in the Fifth Regiment's hands. Few thought it could succeed, least of all the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Socialist Extremist Francisco Largo Caballero. Packing up in haste, the Cabinet fled the capital secretly for Valencia, leaving official instructions for greying, amiable, José Miaja to defend Madrid or surrender as he thought best. At this point the Communist leaders of the Fifth Regiment issued a historic manifesto to all Madrid citizens telling them to build barricades in the streets, to fill bottles with gasoline for use as homemade incendiary bombs against tanks...