Word: negrin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mediator Chamberlain was represented as believing it possible: 1) that Fiihrer Adolf Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies; 2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish Leftist Premier Juan Negrin to declare a truce; 3) that Leftists and Rightists would agree to a government of Spain formed by "neutral" Spaniards in which Catalonia would remain autonomous...
...Barcelona, which had already gone on daylight saving time, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin shoved clocks ahead yet another hour last week, to save still more electricity. Tap water usually ran in the capital for only a few hours each day. Food shops were on short rations, gone altogether the displays of wines, cold meats, biscuits and pastries of a few weeks ago. In Barcelona last week 28 Rightist suspects were executed by Leftist firing squads, and the worst Rightist air raids in six weeks had killed 30, wounded 50 at latest dispatches...
...Barcelona correspondent is compelled to live under the Negrin dictatorship and his dispatches are so heavily censored that readers should not expect the truth in them...
...swart little President of Rightist Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, celebrated the first anniversary of his Cabinet last week by having a radio chat with the people of Leftist Spain. Cried Spain's Robert E. Lee, purporting to address Spain's Abraham Lincoln, the Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin...
Three Regimes. In Barcelona determined Leftist Premier Juan Negrin clarioned "Fight on!," telephoned to Madrid's famed old General José Miaja appointing him military dictator of Southern Leftist Spain. Its area this week was 60,975 square miles; that of Premier Negrin's own Northern Leftist Spain 9,725 square miles; while the area of Rightist Spain was 125,900 square miles...