Word: militiaization
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...White Army battle its way within sight of Madrid. To meet the impending crisis Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was appointed "Supreme Chief of the Military Forces of Spain" and Julio Alvarez del Vayo "General Commissioner of War," in a two-way attempt to exercise political control over the Red Militia. As the White offensive rolled nearer & nearer to the capital, Madrid became a city of gloom and darkness. Gas for cooking and heating had been cut off. Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were pinned up in the streets, "Men of Madrid...
These spirited messages unfortunately did little to stimulate the government's militia, largely composed of ill-trained, ill-disciplined shoemakers, cabdrivers and waiters who were only prevented from scattering in despair by their officers standing behind them with cocked firearms. At San Martín-de-Val de Inglesias, 7,000 Reds vainly attempted to repulse 1,000 Whites, made it easy for White Generalissimo Francisco Franco's armies to resume their march on Madrid...
...scathing fighter in debate. With concentrated sarcasm Signer Grandi asked Comrade Cahan why, if Russia was so strong for non-intervention in Spain, she did not protest the British planes sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan in such fashion as to swish Lord Plymouth, Signor Grandi left off to shout: "The Spanish Government's charges are fantastic and devoid...
...Government." Easy-going Viennese called this Prince Starhemberg's "political abdication" and his easy-going Heimwehr submitted quietly to being dissolved, inasmuch as they were offered a chance to join up at similar pay as members of the new Dictator's own so-called Front Militia. These sweeping changes occupied Chancellor Schuschnigg the whole night. By dawn the Schuschnigg Clericals appeared to have such a stranglehold on Austria that Chancellor Schuschnigg dared to leave Vienna, hopped at 6 a. m. into a plane which flew him to Budapest in time for the funeral and a scowl from bulbous...
...mountain passes to the north of Madrid, where the improperly trained conscripts of White General Emilio Mola have been brawling with the even more improperly trained Government militia for three months, cold rains turned to sleet, then to snow, choked the mountain passes...