Word: catalans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they do Francisco Franco. To handle both groups, trains carrying 3,000 Leftist assault guards and troops reached Barcelona from Valencia last week, vanguard of the Government's shift. At the same time Barcelona police announced discovery of the largest pro-Franco secret organization yet uncovered in the Catalan capital. Arrests and executions promptly followed...
...advise seriousness and prudence, in a recent speech tossed to his audience hare-brained figures. . . ." Urgent notes went to Rome inviting the Fascist Government to discuss "immediate" withdrawal of foreign volunteers at a three-power conference. Behind this were veiled Franco-British threats of force, varying from opening the Catalan frontier for munitions and volunteers from France, to matching Italian volunteers with similar detachments of the French regular army...
General Pozas has already done yeoman service in restoring order in Barcelona and trying to get a Catalan army to take the field. At a bound the capture of Belchite set Sebastian Pozas right among the hierarchy of the Valencia Government, seemed to make him a figure very much to be counted on in the next few months. This was hard news for extremists. Sebastian Pozas won his general's sash long before the civil war. Privately he hates anarchists as much as he hates foreign fascists...
...drastic effort was made to get Barcelona to bear its share of the fighting. Up from Valencia to take control of Barcelona's military came greying, hard-bitten General Sebastian Pozas, ordered to instill a little efficiency into the Barcelona Government and to try to get a few Catalan soldiers into the trenches. Last week came startling news: General Pozas had finally taken the field at the head of a new army of 200,000 Catalans, and some of his troops had already won several towns on the Teruel front, others were threatening Huesca...
...Mystery. A gruesome echo of a previous rebellion came from Madrid last week. Leader of the Anarchist P.O.U.M. (United Marxist Workers Party) largely responsible for the bloody Barcelona riots of May was one Andres Nin, at that time Counselor of Justice in the independent Catalan Government. When Valencia finally put the riots down, big Poum Nin and dozens of lesser Poums were quietly slipped into jail, then transferred to Madrid...