Word: catalonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long overdue, widely advertised, win-the-war offensive of Generalissimo Francisco Franco began at dawn one clear, cold day last week in western Catalonia. Hardest fighting took place in the mountainous section near Tremp, where snow was so deep that communications bogged and the temperature was so low that water froze in the cooling jackets of machine guns. A second, lighter attack, believed to be merely a diversion, took place in the flatter country near the Segre River...
...primarily industrial Catalonia, her population swollen with refugees, her few railroads and highways glutted with military supplies, the possibility of famine was so urgent last week that Barcelona's press bureau sent cables to U. S. Leftist sympathizers appealing for food. Should France and England grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain-an increasing probability-and thus enable Generalissimo Francisco Franco legally to blockade Leftist ports, little food from the outside could get to Leftist Spain...
...prisoners' box at Barcelona sat seven Ninists. The seven and Nin were charged, as members of his P.O.U.M., or Workers Party for Marxist Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make an army division in which they had been carrying on their criminal work abandon the front." What had happened was that the extremely independent P.O.U.M. militia had refused to become absorbed in the new, unified and reformed People...
...Spanish War simmered down again last week to a series of indecisive thrusts, first by Leftists, then by Rightists, each offensive gaining a little territory, none promising to be very big. A Leftist drive across the Segre River in Catalonia quickly died out, while a Rightist thrust in Estremadura, southwest Spain, was still 15 miles from its goal-the precious Almadén mercury mines...
...military news is Leftist General Sebastian Pozas (TIME. Feb. 14), whose army ran in panic on the Aragon front. Instead there are Leftist chiefs like Enrique Lister, leader of Madrid's famous 5th Regiment, nucleus of the People's Army, in charge of the defense of Catalonia, switched recently to the Valencia front. Generalissimo Franco's most trusted henchmen now are Generals Miguel Aranda, Rafael Garcia Valino and José Varela, each in charge of one of the three prongs of the Valencia drive. Last week General Varela's Castilian Army Corps won a signal victory...