Word: gij
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on the French border, to Oviedo, scene of 15 months' fierce siege. Tour No. 2 will go from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping out of the autonomous Basque Republic of Euzkadi, ally of Leftist Spain. The nearest front nowadays will be 150 miles away...
Some days after the Rightist capture of Gijón two months ago an extraordinary story reached foreign correspondents in Madrid and Valencia: several hundred Dinamiteros, bomb-throwing Asturian miners-whom Rightists hate so much that they are executed whenever captured-had slipped through the mountains by night, wormed their way through 300 miles of Rightist territory, and through another battle line, to reassemble with their officers, safe in Leftist territory...
...serious Rightist offensive on the Aragon front must drive toward either Valencia or Barcelona; the latter would be far the richer prize. Barcelona's defenses are strong. They will be stronger with the Government directly behind them, particularly since the fall of Gijón and Santander was largely due to what correspondents in Spain like to call the "fifth column": sympathizers inside a besieged town or district who rise to arms as (presumably) "four" surrounding columns advance...
...appoint a definite Cabinet (or its equivalent) so that they could present Rightist Spain as a formally constituted Government in asking for foreign recognition. El Caudillo has always refused to do this because of the incessant political bickering among his assorted followers, but strengthened by the fall of Gijón, last week a Fascist Grand Council for Rightist Spain was announced. The definite Cabinet duties of each member of the Grand Council had yet to be fixed. Among the five of its dozen members to be named last week was the 27-year-old daughter of Spain...
...having 40,000 volunteers in Spain, competent neutrals estimate not over 80,000, but on escaping to France last week in a fishing smack, famed Leftist Belarmino Tomás announced with a fine Spanish flourish, "110,000 Italian troops were responsible for Franco's capture of Gijón and northwest Spain...