Word: guadarramas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasional potato or orange, rancid olive oil, no sugar, mudlike coffee, little meat. Trees have been cut down, furniture broken up, destroyed houses and buildings whittled away to provide fuel for an undernourished population that feels now more than ever the wintry blasts that sweep down from the Guadarrama Mountains...
While bombs and shell fire were making rubble out of Luis Quintanilla's murals and his studio near University City, he fought with the Leftist infantry in the Guadarrama Mountains, at Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of danger on a diplomatic mission to France. Last June it let him return for six months of sketching along the front from Madrid to Teruel. After showing his drawings in Barcelona last December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship...
...much so that neutral observers agree that Generalissimo Franco's old scheme, to drive a wedge from Teruel to the sea thus breaking Valencia's communications with Madrid, is no longer practicable. Conversely, Teruel itself is immune to direct Leftist attack. West of Teruel to the Guadarrama Mountains is one of the two sectors in the entire line where no formal fortifications exist. In this barren rocky country such fighting as takes place consists of open guerrilla raids. Many scrubby villages do not know for weeks at a time in whose territory they...
...effectively denied, reached Hendaye of a revival of street fighting in Barcelona and other Leftist towns. Again & again stories came up to Madrid of abortive rebellions in Granada, Motril and Toledo. It was said that Italian troops, held in hearty disdain by Spanish Rightists since their disastrous defeat at Guadarrama in March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final attack on Madrid. To make way for them, Spanish regulars were ordered to vacate the most comfortable barracks in the city. Firing broke out, the Falangist...
...bloody siege (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) came last week when the defending Red Militia swarmed over the West Park in Madrid's northwest section, where the Whites had strongly entrenched themselves. This followed after three days of downpour had sent millions of gallons roaring down the Guadarrama and Manzanares Rivers, which overflowed into the White trenches. Gun carriages sank into seas of mud. Dripping wet and nipped by freezing cold, the White troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco withdrew to higher ground, surrendering the waterlogged region to the jubilant Reds with scarcely a shot fired...