Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred and thirty Russians, onetime members of Loyalist Spain's International Brigade, were freed last week from an internment camp just outside Algiers. After four years of political prisons, they were headed for home and service in the Red Army...
...When Loyalist Spain collapsed, the Russians, with scores of comrades in arms, escaped to France and were interned by the Blum Government. When France collapsed too, the Brigadists were shipped off to North Africa and a prison camp at Delfa, on the edge of the Sahara 150 miles south of Algiers. There, on a few crusts of bread a day, smuggled-in newspapers and secret political classes, the Brigadists kept body and ideology together. When they heard of the Allied landing on Nov. 8, they expected immediate release. Instead, an Inter-Allied Commission was set up to investigate political refugees...
Then the release goes on and tells a little something about Lorea himself. It says how Lorea was a loyalist, fighting against France's rebels in Spain, and then how the rebels finally caught up with him and shot him. The release says that "this play by Lorca, a heart-warming tale of love loss and laughter in Granada (that's in Spain), at the turn of the century, has been demanded by Spanish audiences for some time." In fact, Lorca was at one time known as the Spanish Chokhov, which is plenty good...
Last week Batista took another crack at the dictator across the water. He ordered his Minister of the Interior, Antonio Bravo Costa, to legalize the belligerently Loyalist Spanish Republican Circle, outlawed since 1936 street riots with Franco Falangistas. He made no move to release the many Falangistas now jailed as fifth columnists...
...Cuba's more than 4,000,000 inhabitants, about 250,000 are nonnaturalized Spaniards, including some 4,000 Loyalist refugees. Presumably most of these Spanish citizens intend to return home some day, since they have failed to take out Cuban citizenship. If .the Circle extends any appreciable influence, it will be in leading these Spaniards to demand a Republican Spain to which to return. With Mexico's 15,000 Loyalists and some 30,000 in North Africa, they may become an important factor in post-war Spanish politics...