Word: caballeros
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...many a romantic visitor has discovered that in days of old each noble knight wore a sponge in the crotch of his iron trousers. Meantime, disclosed last week were the shocking circumstances, hitherto unsuspected by most Spaniards, in which last autumn the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Premier Largo Caballero ("The Spanish Lenin") took flight from Madrid...
...facts came out because new Leftist Premier Juan Negrin has broken with the Largo Caballero Leftists, is only too glad to have "The Spanish Lenin" exposed. According to Minister of Education Jesus Hernández, the Largo Caballero Cabinet on Nov. 6, when Madrid's fall seemed imminent, left a note with the janitor of their headquarters and quietly skipped to Valencia. That evening famed General José Miaja, military defender of Madrid, happened to come around to see Premier Largo Caballero, was told by the janitor: "I have a letter for you, but my orders are that...
...Anarcho-Syndicalists. most extreme of Spain's Leftist groups, at the newly-installed radical Government of Socialist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin (TIME, May 24). Stocky, 48-year-old Dr. Negrin- born in the Canary Islands, educated in Germany, onetime professor of biology, Finance Minister in the Largo Caballero Cabinet-was not disturbed by these howls. The crisis forced on his predecessor's Government by a revolt of Anarcho-Syndicalists in Barcelona had been smoothly overcome, and Dr. Negrin now had under him a tight, unified, little Cabinet of nine, the sixth Leftist Cabinet since the civil...
...weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the Foreign Ministry. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, who during the Civil War has acquired the distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though Premier last summer for six weeks, is a man of less spectacular record. Dr. Negrirt, however, did not waste Señor Alvarez del Vayo, appointed him delegate to the League Council from the new Government. In this capacity...
...noisy Largo Caballero kept neither job. At week's end the Anarchists were left out and Largo Caballero remained silently aloof while a new Cabinet was formed by stocky. 48-year-old Dr. Juan Negrin, Socialist Finance Minister under Premier Largo Caballero. The new Cabinet, reduced from 19 to nine members, was immediately accepted by President Manuel Azaña, but the Anarcho-Syndicalist Union (the C.N.T.) declared it would "not collaborate." Madrid's defender, capable General José Miaja, avoided the whole...