Word: ibarruri
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were pinned up in the streets, "Men of Madrid ! Will you allow your women to be raped by Moors !" The women themselves were similarly exhorted by Communist Deputy Doña Dolores ("The Passion Flower") Ibarruri, who pleaded: "Women of Madrid ! Do not hinder your husbands from going to War. It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
...fighting under such banners as LONG LIVE DYNAMITE! A speech by Socialist Prieto in which he urged the Government militia to moderate their excesses brought a violent counter blast from Communist Deputy Dolores ("The Passion Flower") Ibarruri:- "Im- prison the wives and children of all who are fighting the Government! . . . The life of each militiaman fighting at the front must be guaranteed by holding the mother or child of a traitor as hostage!" In Madrid hospitals, where most of the trained nurses have always been Sisters of Mercy, these nuns were ejected last week by untrained radical nurses despite...