Word: kleber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that city's heroic defense. Mysteriously killed in battle was history's first Anarchist general, Buenaventura Durruti, organizer of the first Anarchist militia. Also passed out of the picture is the brains of Madrid's defense-42-year-old, tall, Austrian-born, Canadian-naturalized Emilio Kleber, former commander of the International Brigade, globe-trotting general of revolutionary armies...
...great international commanders, such as General Emil Kleber, Lieut.-Colonel Randolfo Pacciardi and General Lukacs have either been killed or left Spain long ago," reported Correspondent Matthews. "The key to the Leftists' bold decision undoubtedly is determination to clear the decks once and for all of those few foreigners whose presence added reason for the accusation of Moscow's interference in the Spanish war. Their presence was always understood as temporary -until good enough Spanish leaders could be developed to take their places. There are now some truly remarkable Spanish commanders, such as Modesto, Duran, Lister and Campesine...
...under false names, keep in the background as much as possible. Many have not been of Russian nationality, one is known to have remarked with a grin, "I have five perfectly valid passports, one American." Veteran New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews names as non-Spanish Leftist Generals Kleber, Lukacs. De Gorieff (also called Van Rosen), Gall, Walter and an anti-Nazi German , General so leery lest his real name be found out that he is called only by the common Christian name of "Hans...
...fact that the rebels still held the Cathedral, was the first important Leftist victory since the Italian rout at Guadalajara in March (TIME, March 22 et seq.). Politically it was still more important. Jealousy behind the lines has removed from command of the Leftist International Brigade General Emilio Kleber, has seriously handicapped the defender of Madrid, General José Miaja. For the recent Saragossa-Teruel offensive 200,000 men were assembled, 200 planes, nearly 1,000 trucks. This, the most elaborate Leftist offensive yet attempted, was handed over to General Sebastian Pozas, a greying, hollow-eyed officer who looks more...
Concealment of Kleber's whereabouts has been a Valencia tactic from the start. Few days before United Press announced Kleber in command on the Huesca front, assorted Leftist dispatches, while omitting to say who was actually in command, described a General Cahue as "killed," said his successor, Hungarian Communist General Matei Jalka Lukacs, "died when a shell hit his moving car," reported the Huesca command had passed to an "Italian radical," Adriano Nathan, then described him as dead with a bullet through his head...