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Arranna's dream of a free Basqueland was temporarily realized when the Spanish government approved Basque autonomy following a 1933 plebiscite in the Basque country. Autonomy had carried 459,255 votes out of a possible 490,157 in the balloting. The Spanish government formally declared Basque independence in Guernica and the ceremonies were held under a tree which was to become the symbol of Basque freedom. For the first time in history the Basque lands became a republic and Jose Antonio Aguirre became the new president. Independence, however, lasted only two short years and perished with the advent...
...total" war involving civilian populations. The war became a testing ground for the weapons and strategies of World War II. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy used the Spanish war to perfect the Stuka dive bomber and the tactics of incendiary bombing that in one day destroyed the town of Guernica, among many others. The Soviet Union backed the Popular Front government, as did Communists everywhere. But the vastly greater weight of German and Italian arms, coupled with the decision by the Russians and Germans to seek a nonaggression pact, which dried up Soviet support for the Republicans, eventually gave...
...Franks out of their fastnesses in the Pyrenees, and they were the only tribe in Europe that ever defeated the Prankish King Charlemagne. A Basque independent republic flourished briefly in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, but Hitler's Stuka dive-bombers crushed it in the rubble of Guernica thus assuring the dictatorial control of all Spain by Franco...
...assimilation, of that prehensile eye clawing at the world's very guts, dissolved. He ran out of subjects and fell back as never before on stock dummies - troglodytic clowns and kidney-profiled women who now and then remind one that the man who painted them also made Guernica and Girl Before a Mirror...
...through his long years of self-imposed exile against the Franco regime, donated some 1,000 works from his early years to a new Picasso Museum set up by his late secretary, Jaime Sabartés, in a palatial mansion in Barcelona. Picasso also decreed that his famed mural Guernica, which has been on temporary loan to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art since World War II, be returned to Spain when civil liberties have been restored. Last week, as Spain mourned him as its own, his countrymen expressed regret that Picasso had not ensured that more...