Word: oviedo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dangerous situation in his rear. San Sebastian and Bilbao were still in Loyalist hands. With hostilities ceasing in the Barcelona region, Loyalists might be able to launch an attack at his rear. Out of the ground to defend these Basque cities for the Loyalists poured the Communist miners of Oviedo, hurling homemade bombs of dynamite, slashing with knives. General Mola's attack was beaten...
...Commission as an "affront to Spain," French Commissioner Bourthomieux discreetly took the first train for Paris. The Britons and the Czech stuck, to be jeered by hoodlums in the streets. Armed with a letter from Premier Lerroux, they sped to Asturias, the "Atrocities Province," presented their credentials at Oviedo to Major Doval, the Military Acting Governor. "Certainly, my Lord and Miss Wilkinson," beamed the Major, "it will be a pleasure...
...Lord," he nervously observed, "Premier Lerroux has made me personally responsible for your safety. Perhaps now that you have seen everything in Oviedo your object in coming to Spain has been attained...
With the jeers of Oviedo ringing in his ears, Lord Listowel accepted with alacrity this invitation to flee. In the Major's high-powered car, escorted by soldiers, the Commission dashed to Santander, just missed a boat for England, dashed on and were put safely across the frontier into France. On the train to Paris they were offered copies of a French journalist's report on Spain's atrocities appearing in the weekly Je Suis Partout. This charged that Spanish nuns were raped indiscriminately in Asturias, that some 30 priests were butchered or "roasted alive slowly," that...
...into effect by proclamation. In Santiago, Chile, El Impartial pointed out that the U. S., Britain and France were by no means the only countries guilty of keeping the slaughter going. Holland and Norway have sold the fighters rifle ammunition, Denmark. Madsen machine guns. Sweden, Bofors cannon. Spain, Oviedo rifles, Czechoslovakia's Brno Works, automatic rifles. How Paraguay paid for all this remained a mystery. Bolivia has financed the war without recourse to extreme taxation, entirely on tin, her greatest export...