Word: generalidad
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Barcelona as usual went off completely halfcocked. Without waiting for definite news of the progress of the revolution elsewhere, impetuous Luis Companys. President of Catalonian Generalidad, climbed out on a balcony of the Government palace and proclaimed Catalonia a separate Republic. Government troops rushed down from the fortress and promptly besieged him. A few hours of firing and Luis Companys and the Catalan Republic surrendered together...
Crowds standing in the square before the high porticoed Generalidad burst into El Segredores, the once proscribed Catalonian anthem, roared loudest at the verse about cutting off the heads of the proud Castilians. Manuel Azana grinned good naturedly. Even the white geese in the Cathedral cloister honked their loudest...
...Catalans," he shouted from the white balcony of Barcelona's Generalidad Palace, "You are free! The moment the Catalan autonomy statute gains full force, I shall resign...
...Madrid's decree means a repetition of the tyranny against labor imposed by former Madrid Governments against Catalonia, the Generalidad will oppose...
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