Word: gir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, the exiled Spanish Republican Government still dreamed of returning as the legitimate heir of Spanish sovereignty. Like Paris and Moscow, it wanted more than the Tripartite manifesto. Cried Premier José Girál: "The only solution lies in the breaking of relations with Franco, and the rebirth of the government which represents republican...
...Girál's Government was consulting with the Communists, led by Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) of Civil War fame. It was in contact with the chief Spanish underground, of unassessable political strength, known as the National Alliance of Democratic Forces. But it considered Rightists like Gil Robles as "renegade republicans." It sneered at the monarchists-"a cabal of old women made up almost entirely of political whores and political virgins." Spanish disunity was as tragically great as ever...
...Exiled Spanish Republicans, sensing opportunity, composed many of their differences and set up a government in Mexico City under suave, sophisticated Diego Martinez Barrio as President and mild-mannered José Girál y Pereira as Premier. The new government's political complexion was a moderate pink, calculated to please Britain...
Died. Thakore Saheb Shri Dharmendrasinhji, 30, native ruler of Rajkot, India; of a heart attack; while hunting in the Gir Forest. It was to give the subjects of the despotic Thakore Saheb a voice in their Government that Mahatma Gandhi began his "fast unto death" in 1939, which he ended at the intervention of British Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, and the establishment of an advisory council...
Conceding the Gymnasts an upset victory in the medley, they must then place their main reliance on Harry Rawstrom, in the 220 and 440, Art Beck in the 60, Carl Condon in the dive, Don Lotz in the century, Gir Milligan and Ed Shea in the backstroke, and Archie Pincombe in the breastroke for enough points to carry the meet into the free relay...