Word: negrin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Year, Premier Juan Negrin of Spain...
What the Leftist Government could do to forestall this, last week it did. Besides fortifying almost the whole 300 miles of the Aragon front from the French frontier to Teruel, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin prepared to move his Cabinet, lock, stock & barrel to Barcelona. For this there were reasons political, mechanical and military...
...possible fifth columns exist in Barcelona, the usual group of pro-Rightists that exists in every city of importance in Spain, and Anarchists and other extremists who distrust the Negrin Government almost as much as they do Francisco Franco. To handle both groups, trains carrying 3,000 Leftist assault guards and troops reached Barcelona from Valencia last week, vanguard of the Government's shift. At the same time Barcelona police announced discovery of the largest pro-Franco secret organization yet uncovered in the Catalan capital. Arrests and executions promptly followed...
...elected Deputies, only 188 attended. Anarchists and Trotskyite Communists staying away. After a series of emotional speeches the Cortes voted unanimous confidence in the Negrin Government and adjourned for the day. Two facts were important. Into the hall to take his seat stepped 75-year-old Manuel Portela Valladares, Premier of Spain in 1936 when the Popular Front took power, and politically about as Red as U. S. Senator Carter Glass. Since the beginning of the war he has been a voluntary exile in Paris. Last week he promised allegiance to the Negrin Government, brought three other conservative Deputies with...
Down the street at the same time occurred a meeting of the Socialist U.G.T. labor unions, backers of disgruntled ex-Premier Largo Caballero, chief thorn in the Negrin Government's side. Largo Caballero controls but seven of U.G.T.'s original 42 assorted unions, has forced the expulsion of 29 others. Those 29 held a meeting of their own last week, and insisting that they were the real majority of U.G.T., voted confidence in the Negrin Government's "win the war first" program...