Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forest fires on mountain slopes in the Leftist-held Ebro River salient last week brought a Rightist offensive to a sudden halt, resulted in the 26-month-old war's quietest week. Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself commanded during the early part of this drive. Mentioned casually, however, last week in a Rightist communiqué as the new commander of the Ebro offensive was able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech...
Prize exhibit of the display, however, was a live Soviet tank driver who drove in his 15-ton tank from the Leftist People's Army into the Rightist lines and surrendered. Obligingly the proletarian soldier demonstrated his death-dealing machine to an aristocratic audience which included German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer, Italian Ambassador Count Guido Viola di Campalto, Papal Nuncio Mgr. Gaetano Cicognani. Opening the exhibit was short, blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain...
Partly as comic relief, partly to prove that Leftist Spain's munitions agents had been hoodwinked into paying out good Spanish gold for outdated equipment, the show also included a 3-ton, 6-in. cannon, mounted on a high-wheeled carriage and an old Winchester rifle. The cannon, worthy of a museum, was manufactured at Obujov. Russia in 1864. The Winchester, with the date 1860 still visible on its barrel, was the type used by U. S. frontiersmen in the Indian fighting...
Distinguished by an almost total absence of Dada clutter and by a powerful employment of Surrealist scale, lighting and perspective, the montages were the work of 40-year-old Jose Renau of Barcelona. For two years Leftist Director General of Fine Arts, charged with guarding Spanish art treasures and with planning the Spanish Pavilion at last year...
Disabled, the José Luis Diez crept back to Gibraltar, and was beached in shallow water behind the Mole. That afternoon the British destroyer Vanoc gave Rightist and Leftist dead a sea burial. For the superior Rightist Navy the battle was partial revenge for the sinking a year ago of its battleship España, the torpedoing last winter of its cruiser Baleares...