Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Castellon de la Plana, reports Professor Haldane, the clay consistency of the soil is such that a refuge could quickly be dug 40 feet beneath nearly every house, and these refuges were connected by tunnels. In the end, Castellon was captured by the Rightists (TIME, June 20), but meanwhile Leftist inhabitants made perhaps the best civilian score to date in avoiding death from...
...Flattens Everything!" An ardent Leftist, Professor Haldane says that "a British Labor or Popular Front Government" might have ordered taken long ago the precautions he now recommends. He ignores the fact that Moscow has not taken them, that the French Popular Front, after studying the reports of its many-agents in Spain, adopted the same "evacuation strategy" as British Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. Apart from his plunge into politics and recriminations, Scientist Haldane gives many objective, personal accounts of his sensations under bombing in Spain...
...eclipse of Commissar Litvinoff last week left the Geneva limelight to Premier Dr. Juan Negrin of Leftist Spain. In a noble speech, upholding with Spanish fervor the ideals of the League, Dr. Negrin cried: "Once foreign intervention in Spain has been eliminated, I can assure you a policy of national conciliation, conducted under the firm, energetic direction of an authoritative government, will make it possible for all Spaniards to forget these years of conflict and cruelty and will rapidly re-establish domestic peace. Then the harsh trials of the present times may be regarded in our country as a baptism...
...Negrin did not ask the League to do anything about removing the Germans and Italians who are fighting for Rightist Spain, but he did go on to announce dramatically that Leftist Spain, which has been sending home its foreign volunteers for several weeks past, will now send the last of them home (see below), and only asks the League of Nations to send a commission to Spain to verify this fact. The cautious Assembly did not at once appoint the commission requested by Dr. Negrin, but he was cheered for having struck a purely idealistic note "proving that the League...
...Spain last week the Leftist Army was estimated at 600,000 (including 10,000 non-Spanish), the Rightist Army at some 400,000 (including 50,000 non-Spanish whites, 30,000 Moors). Each side was busy with widely separated, half-hearted and ineffective offensives at the Leftist-held Ebro River salient and at Rightist-held Cordoba, but the bogged-down Spanish war made a spurt of news when at Geneva the League was suddenly told by Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin that he will speed up and continue his recent evacuations of foreign volunteers from Leftist Spain until...