Word: catalonia
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...strange misshapen houses of which Barcelona is so proud were close shuttered and dark last week. No lights twinkled in the sloping Plaza Catalonia. Under the plane trees the boulevards were silent except for the clop-clop of cavalry patrols making their rounds and the sudden roar of an armored...
...last week Catalonians went to the polls and voted their desire for independence from Madrid. In the four Catalonian provinces (Barcelona, Lerida, Tarragona, Gerona) 173,000 voted for autonomy, 2,517 voted against it. It was a 70 to 1 victory for Col. Francisco Macia, wild-eyed "President" of Catalonia, a victory that he celebrated with much gusto...
...Catalonia wishes, I shall continue to serve...
When the crowds had cleared, foreign correspondents studied the statute of autonomy to see just what degree of independence Catalonia demanded...
...Madrid's decree means a repetition of the tyranny against labor imposed by former Madrid Governments against Catalonia, the Generalidad will oppose...