Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painting, which has aroused storms of both favorable and unfavorable comment, depicts the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937 by the air force of insurgent General France. It was done by Picasso for the Loyalist government as a condemnation of the raid which virtually annihilated the population and town of the sacred Basque shrine...
...Communist Milquetoast" (Earl Browder); on "Stalin's Children's Hour" (The American Youth Congress); on "the Typewriter Front" and "the Intellectual Red Terror." "Cocktails for Spanish Democracy" includes some of the plainest and clearest speaking yet heard on the befogged subject of the Red stake in Loyalist Spain. Less outspoken (for reasons of libel) is the chapter on "America's Own Popular Front Government," the Communist penetration of the New Deal...
...observers at least, the propaganda that Germany had cooked up for Spanish consumption seemed even less potent than the pressure on Vichy. Headlined in the Falangist paper Arriba was a story that exiled Loyalist General Jose Miaja had been plotting with...
Back in his native Spain, Souto found his best inspiration in the old Spanish masters Goya, El Greco, Velásquez. In 1934 the Spanish Republican Government gave him a Prix de Rome, which lasted him until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. A Loyalist who had a brother in Franco's ranks, Souto didn't enjoy the war much. Two months before it was over he left for Paris and Brussels, drifted later to the U.S. Exiled and running low on funds in Manhattan, Souto was lucky enough to get friends to stake him to last...
There is nothing prophetic about Toward a Philosophy of History. Written mostly during Ortega's exile after the fall of Loyalist Spain, this book, like much of his writing, jumbles acute discernments about politics, society, people, side by side with kittenish comment, mental gymnasties, clever stories. The writing is spontaneous and good-natured, like the talk of a popular professor who feels superior to his class but does not take himself too seriously...