Word: catalanes
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...Spanish spotlight, focused for the past month on the Basque capital at Bilbao, swung last week to Barcelona, greatest industrial city in Spain and chief port remaining in Leftist hands. Catalan Barcelona, like Basque Bilbao, is the capital of a group of Spain's 50 provinces, which since the Revolution have tended to become more & more autonomous. Unlike Bilbao, Barcelona has not been seriously threatened by Rightists since the first weeks of the civil...
...troublesome group in the state. The main reason that government is possible at all in Catalonia is due to the extraordinary talent for compromise of Catalonia's president, excitable Luis Companys. President Companys has been in & out of jails much of his political career, has long fought for Catalan independence, speaks of Spain as "the Iberian Peninsula." His technique with his spluttering allies is to promise them everything with the greatest goodwill. This worked moderately well for many months in keeping peace in Barcelona, but did nothing at all to help the hard-pressed Leftist armies fight...
Loudly President Companys called for peace and unity to face the common foe, warned that the Catalans were leaving the way open for a raid from General Franco's Rightists. No such raid came, but before peace was restored over 300 people had been killed and according to reports the Valencia Government, to police Barcelona, had had to withdraw 12.000 badly needed troops from the Aragon front. Heretofore careful to avoid mixing in local Catalan squabbles, Valencia also moved in General Sebastian Pozas to be military commander of Catalonia...
...egotism and idiocy . . . today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping down the high road of history." The sectionalism which has marked modern Spanish history, notably the movements for Basque and Catalan nationalism, have their roots. Ortega thinks, deep in the past. It took a strong Castile to make Spain and its empire, and once Castile lost its strength, the elements of its domain split off by centrifugal force...
...importer named Paul Mousis, but M. Mousis refused to legitimize Maurice Valadon Boissy or give him his name, though he had no objection to paying lor the boy's education later and helping him out of innumerable scrapes. In 1891 little Maurice was legitimized by a good-natured Catalan dilettante. Miguel Utrillo y Molinis. Maurice Utrillo has never liked his legal name. Devoted to his mother, he signs most of his canvases Maurice Utrillo, V. (for Valadon...