Word: casado
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...Loyalist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin was replaced early this week by a defeatist junta of six military and political leaders headed by General Segismundo Casado, recently appointed military commander of the Madrid Zone. Dr. Negrin was overthrown and given his flying papers to France in what had all the earmarks of a bloodless but forceful Army coup d'etat. It spelled the final dissolution of Loyalist Spain and brought peace very near to the war-weary country...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers was put down in Loyalist Cartagena and 30 Loyalist aviators escaped to Morocco in their planes. In their first manifesto members of the new Government even uttered bold words about "resisting to the utmost limit" and sinking or swimming together. But General Casado is an old-line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months ago in Barcelona urged Loyalist President Manuel Azana to dismiss...
...port of her own. By filling in swampland, roads and railroads can be built from the Andean plateau to that port. From there Bolivian products can be transported down the broad Paraguay River into the Paraná River, then into the River Plata and finally into the Atlantic. Puerto Casado, further down the river in Paraguay, may also be made a free port...
...Puerto Casado. 3,000 inhabitants. A railroad connects the forest with the port. The estimated capital invested in Puerto Casado exceeds six million gold pesos. In the estancias there are 80,000 head of cattle...
...Paraguay forcing Bolivia slowly to "git" even if it took ten years to do it-Kundt or no Kundt. The Chaco is studded all along its coast by prosperous townships-Villa Hayes (so named in honor of U. S. President Charles Rutherford Hayes), Puerto Pinasco (American company), Puerto Casado, Puerto Sastre, etc. Extensive cattle ranges with Hereford and Shorthorn strains go for hundreds of kilometres into the interior which in many parts has narrow gauge rails for transportation. Swamps and bogs are to be found in every part of the world that are underpopulated, or, as still of course...