Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the successful offensive last spring of Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco split Leftist Spain into two parts, mail has since been carried between Valencia and Barcelona chiefly by submarine. Last week in the U. S. arrived copies of the issue of one, two, six and ten peseta "submarine stamps" (see cut), all illustrated with submarines, by which the Leftists have commemorated the fact of their physical division...
Lady C. in London last week disclaimed political activity, remarked that, as chairman of the General Relief Fund for Distressed Spanish Women and Children (both Leftists and Rightists), it was natural enough for her to go to Spain. "I was favorably impressed," said she, "with conditions in the districts I visited." Retorted the Leftist spokesman of the Spanish Embassy in London: "If she is as interested in Government Spain as in Franco Spain, why didn't she include Government Spain in her tour?" Admitting that she was receiving hundreds of letters from irate Leftists, the conservative Prime Minister...
...torn Spain became a mere spectator last week as both belligerent armies virtually halted their small-scale war to watch the deepening European crisis. Leftist authorities believed that both sides in Spain would be weakened by a general European war, the Rightists because Germany and Italy would withdraw their generous aid from Generalissimo Franco, the Leftists because not only would they have little chance of receiving further Soviet aid, but Britain and other maritime powers would commandeer for their own use the tramp steamers which now run food and gasoline to Barcelona and Valencia. Leftists believed, however, that they would...
Last week, reports from U. S. Army circles in Washington gave credence to contentions that the Barcelona raids had also been experimental. The new bomb, it was said, was a closely guarded German military secret. All that foreign military attachés in Leftist Spain had learned from a study of its fragments was that it was filled with exploding liquid air, was made of a material more durable and lighter than aluminum...
...delegates from the 13 Central and South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ramón González Peña, who has personally fought fascism in the Asturias by lighting sticks of dynamite from the end of his cigar and hurling them where they would do the most good; and John L. Lewis of C.I.O...