Word: lerida
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...convert from Catholicism, who remembered clearly the bitterness of discrimination against Protestants. Said he: "I have not been so nervous since my wedding day." In every city, the meetings drew hundreds of curious Spaniards. The Americans also tried some door-to-door buttonholing, aided by bilingual dictionaries. In Lerida, the local radio broadcast spot commercials for the crusade 14 times daily, and in Cordova, the Baptists handed out 5,000 tracts...
FERNANDO BONEU Lerida, Spain...
Biggest Rebel victory of the week was the capture, by the bayonet, of Granadella, 18 miles south of Lerida, centre of the Catalonian battlefront. Before they could take Artesa, however, a group of rugged, rocky peaks well-defended by machine-gun nests had to be crossed...
Most likely spots for the Big Push are the Sagunto sector, where the Insurgent drive on Valencia was halted by the Loyalist counteroffensive on the Ebro four months ago, or the area around Lerida in the north, where an Insurgent break-through would place Franco within striking distance of Barcelona...
...week by functionaries of the French Foreign Office in Paris. Favored journalists were tipped that under arrest in Saragossa, for having made a speech in which he attacked the Rightist Air Force for too vigorous bombing, was famed General Juan Yague, who led the recent Rightist drive which captured Lerida (TIME, April 11). Information that General Yague is out of circulation came from French secret service agents in Rightist territory, made a rattling good story on the Quai d'Orsay. Hot-tempered, hot-tongued General Yague was reported as having said that if Generalissimo Franco had as many members...