Word: negrin
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Year, Premier Juan Negrin of Spain...
...would also make a flank attack on the Rightist stronghold of Saragossa possible. To Generalissimo Franco the threat to Jaca had an even gloomier significance: it meant that the Aragon Front, consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football with their adversaries between the lines have been replaced by trained troops eager to fight. Up to the breach Caudillo ("Chief") Franco rushed divisions of Italians that would have had more than enough...
...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...
...open forum of the League Council the job of loudly naming for the first time a pirate power was performed by Premier Juan Negrin of Leftist Spain. Alphabetical rotation had made him president of the Council at this session, but Mr. Negrin handed his gavel to the Delegate of Ecuador, moved to another seat at the horseshoe table, drew himself up and cried: "The anonymous State whose warships are trying by constant aggressions to create a state of terrorism in the Mediterranean is Italy...