Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of trucks two blocks long stood outside the ornate portals of the Bank of Spain, in Madrid's Calle Alcalá. Bank employees, under the guard of picked Communist militiamen, loaded the trucks with 510 tons of gold, in bullion and coins-the bulk of the Loyalist gold hoard-worth 1.734,000,000 gold pesetas ($566 million). Although Spain's civil war was only three months old, Nazi intervention had made the Soviet-backed Loyalist position shaky...
...that the Milwaukee Braves and the Baltimore Orioles have taught the big leagues that shifting a franchise can spruce up a team, most baseball men agree that the Athletics could do worse than make the sleeper jump to Kansas City. But Roy Mack is a stubborn loyalist. When the Athletics' board of directors meets this week to consider Johnson's offer, Roy will be on hand with some last-minute support from a syndicate of Philadelphia businessmen. If Co-Owners Connie, Roy and Earle agree to sell their stock, Harry Sylk, president of Philadelphia...
After the Loyalist defeat, he served Communism abroad-in Mexico, where he organized a publishing house as a front for Red Spanish refugees and helped plan Trotsky's assassination; in France, where he ran a school for anti-Franco saboteurs. But Comorera, always strong-willed and undisciplined, became intolerant of Moscow's rule. Reprimanded, he shot back: "We are Spanish Communists, not Russians." He was read out of the party. Even his own Communist daughter attacked him over Radio Moscow. A few months ago, learning that a fellow ex-Communist had been tracked down and killed...
...first great meeting with history, the first passionate political love affair-or hate binge. Scores of keen-eyed witnesses, including Britain's late George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia (TIME, May 19, 1952), have shown that the war was not a simple melodrama of Franco vice v. Loyalist virtue, but a far more complex tragedy in which the Loyalist side itself fought a kind of civil war within a civil war, being first championed and then betrayed by the Communists. Many a sentimental liberal has since learned his lesson and lost the illusions...
...even one Communist or Socialist, that out of more than 470 members in the Cortes, there were only 15 Communists. He also presents convincing evidence that Italy and Germany were in the scrap from the beginning. His documentation of the murder by Franco's men of 15 pro-Loyalist Basque priests after the fall of Bilbao is tragic proof that not all the outrages against the church in Spain were committed by the Reds. He also argues fairly effectively that the Loyalists turned to Communist Russia for aid only after being denied the right to buy arms from Britain...