Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Rebel capture of Catalonia complete, Premier Negrin, determined to hold out in central Loyalist Spain until he can wangle the best possible terms out of Generalissimo Franco or until international developments-i.e., war or the threat of war between Italy and France-turn the tide in favor of Loyalist Spain, announced his intention to go to Madrid and continue the struggle. Again France indulged in a friendly gesture to General Franco and informed Premier Negrin that no special plane would be allowed to remove him from French soil. Again the Premier found a way out. With...
Back in Madrid, the Loyalists' first capital,* the Premier called what remains of his cabinet together, proclaimed Madrid the capital once more of the Loyalist Government. With weatherbeaten old General Miaja as Generalissimo and commander-in-chief of all of central Spain, the Premier drafted a proclamation calling for "a compact, heroic national front" to make a last-ditch stand in the Madrid area. "Our fate is at stake and it depends entirely upon ourselves to come out successfully from the present situation through our own will power and determination. Either we shall all save ourselves or sink ourselves...
...will take some weeks before General Franco can rest and reorganize his forces and replenish his supplies for a big drive on central Loyalist Spain but last week the Rebel commanders began giving Madrid a bloody foretaste of the fight to come. The big guns outside Madrid, fired only sporadically for a year, opened up in earnest and plumped their shells into the city. Twenty-four were killed and 64 wounded in one day's barrage. Rebel bombers this week also resumed heavy attacks on Valencia and Alicante, two of the three main ports remaining in Loyalist hands...
...Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georges Bonnet, are not on the best of political terms. A story which gave an interesting line on each came out of Paris last week. Fundamental difference between the two is that M. Bonnet is an ardent appeaser of dictators, and dreams of being the central figure in a great general European "settlement," while M. Daladier has decided, at least temporarily, to yield no more to Germany and Italy...
...East had had their eyes on Japanese troop movements from the Chinese occupied zones northward toward the Siberian-Manchukuo border. So many soldiers have been withdrawn, said Mr. Abend, that the Canton area is now held by only 25,000 men, the huge Yangtze Valley and Central China districts by only...