Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general staff headquarters are all within 100 yards of Salamanca's great ornate cathedral, one of the finest in Spain. Proof that the Leftist raid on Salamanca was not an isolated incident but represented a complete change in policy came quickly. In another Leftist raid, against blustering Queipo de Llano's private bailiwick, the city of Seville, five tons of bombs were dropped. 24 people including eleven children and three women were killed...
...assassinate" seven British Laborite M.P.'s who had been visiting Valencia's law courts, were on their way to a luncheon at the officers' training camp. The nearest bomb fell at least a quarter of a mile away, but the Rightist's radiorating Queipo de Llano soon made priceless Leftist propaganda by bellowing that the British Laborites are "Marxist scoundrels and a pack of savages whom we will punish as they ought to be punished...
...windows. Suddenly the singing ceased. "Up Dev!'' roared the crowds. "A republic-no less!" A tall, gaunt, smiling man appeared for a moment on the doorstep. Then a surge of enthusiastic Irishmen swept away a line of police and pranced beside the car of departing Eamon de Yalera, Prime Minister of the new state of Eire (TIME, Jan. 24. et ante), who had just concluded a three-day peace parley with Britain...
...such outbursts had taken place inside No. 10. The meeting got off on the right foot when de Valera found on the British side of the long Cabinet table his trusted friend, "straight shooting'' Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late James Ramsay MacDonald, and Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find...
...British Government," purred Prime Minister Chamberlain, in opening the parley, "would be happy to see Ireland reunited, but only with the consent of Ulster and only as the result of a direct agreement between the two governments now existing in Ireland.'' "Thirty-two counties* or nothing," was de Valera's firm retort. But there was a diplomatic gleam in his eye as he added that unity of Ireland is "the essential foundation for the establishment of real understanding and friendship between the two peoples of Britain and Eire." He proposed an all-Ireland parliament, full representation therein...