Word: jarama
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...face of a public-school don, but his heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla. At Jarama he led the puny British left wing's machine-gun crew through pitch night to a hill looking down on whole tribes of Moors. At dawn his guns nearly wiped out the boxed-in Moors. Late in the action he got a bullet in his knee, next...
...conscience. Having fought fascism in every way that I know how in the places where you could really fight it, I have no remorse - neither literary nor political. Suggest MacLeish read play The Fifth Column and see again the film The Spanish Earth. If MacLeish had been at Guadalajara, Jarama, Madrid, Teruel, first and second battles of the Ebro, he might feel better. Young men wrote of the first war to show truly the idiocies and murderous stupidity of the way it was conducted by the Allies and Italy. Other young men wrote books that showed the same thing about...
...months little military activity has taken place on Spain's Madrid front. Last week, at several points southeast of Madrid on the Jarama River, Leftists repulsed small isolated Rightist punches. To some observers these attacks were regarded as feelers preliminary to a new Rightist offensive aimed at encircling Spain's former capital...
...Madrid in November 1936 and their stubborn resistance in the Casa del Campo outside Madrid, probably gave Leftist General José Miaja enough time to organize his defenses to prevent the city's capture by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They appeared later in the successful halt of the Rightist Jarama River drive and in the panicky rout of Italian Fascist troops in the Battle of Brihuega, on the Guadalajara Road...
...they are beaten by armed forces they take their revenge on unarmed civilians. In this war, since the middle of November, they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they have been beaten at Carabanchel, they have been beaten on the Jarama. they have been beaten at Brihuega and at Córdoba, and they are being fought to a standstill at Bilbao. Every time they are beaten in the field they salvage that strange thing they call their honor, by murdering civilians...