Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coolidge and Boylston prizes for debating and oratory, and for the last 16 years he has stepped to the microphone with only scribblings for script. His most exciting ad lib was the first broadcast ever made of war-from a bullet-ridden haystack between Spanish Leftist and Rightist lines, with cannon fire for sound effects. Not scared by war, he was not to be scared by a war scare. His comments throughout were calm, hopeful, accurate...
Today, the Internationals are a political embarrassment and, in overpopulated Leftist Spain, are so many more mouths to feed. For two months Dr. Negrin has been sending Internationals home by small groups. That they leave with the gratitude of Leftist Spain was indicated by the Premier. He called them "courageous, devoted men." proclaimed the "high moral value of their sacrifices" at Spain's "most critical hour," assured them that Spain would be "sad" at their leavetaking, "this new and painful service we now ask of them...
...years ago, when the first volunteers arrived. Since that time about 45,000 men, many of them Communists, some pure adventurers, some political exiles from Fascist countries, some idealistic democrats, some World War veterans and others mere youths, office boys, clerks and farm hands, have taken up arms for Leftist Spain. Many of them smuggled themselves across the French frontier in defiance of Non-Intervention Committee rules...
...greatest number in service at one time was 20,000 in February 1937. Used as shock troops, never allowed to rest for long, shifted from one busy front to another, the Internationals' casualties have been staggeringly high. They filled up bad gaps of a slowly forming Leftist Army in the early days of the war. The French volunteers led in numbers, followed by Poles, German exiles (Thaelmann Battalion), Italian exiles (Garibaldi Battalion), English, the U. S. volunteers (Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, later simply Lincoln-Washington Battalion), Canadians (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion), many Central Europeans...
...this mixed force of many tongues was attributed several heroic defenses. The brigades' arrival at 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...