Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less panicky was the Spanish Government in its retreat. Loyalist President Manuel Azaña passed over the border on foot. President Luis Companys of Catalonia and his government got to safety. So did President Jose Antonio de Aguirre of the now non-existent Basque Republic. Premier Dr. Juan Negrin stuck it out until the last minute, then took to a mountain pass to France. The last of his ministers were shortly on his heels...
...Premier Negrin offered publicly to mediate the war on three conditions: 1) that Spain would be freed of foreign influence (meaning Italians and Germans); 2) that a Government be established through a plebiscite (meaning the probable displacement of Generalissimo Franco); 3) that the liquidation of the war be accompanied without persecution so that all Spaniards could join in reconstruction. On the other hand, Generalissimo Franco, answering inquiries from London and Paris, was reported to have demanded unconditional surrender. Despite the crescendo of peace reports, it seemed more than likely that Dr. Negrin and his loyal ministers would soon transfer...
...guide books of the future, Figueras will be more vividly remembered as the meeting place of one of the strangest sessions of the Cortes, the Spanish Parliament. The Spanish Constitution requires a session of the Cortes at least every six months. Determined to be scrupulously constitutional, the Premier called a Cortes meeting despite the gravity of the military situation. In an underground, bombproof cavern of the 18th-Century Castle of San Fernando on the outskirts of the city, 62 of the 473 duly elected deputies met to hear the Government's report of the war. The walls of white...
...especially Great Britain) for turning their backs on Republican Spain. He revealed that his Government, forced to buy contraband munitions wherever it could, had bought some from Germany and Italy, its mortal enemies. "If we lose Catalonia, we shall continue to fight in the central part of Spain," the Premier said. "Nations live not only by victories, but also by the examples they give their people." The Premier's war aims were unanimously approved by the Cortes...
...third time the Loyalist Government's capital was moved. Premier Dr. Juan Negrin set up headquarters in the little fortress town of Figueras, 17 miles south of the French border and 40 miles north of the advancing Rebel lines at week's end. He announced a fight to the finish and declared that fresh troops with new arms would establish a line on the Ter River. In an odd dispatch. New York Timesman H. L. Matthews stated that the French border had "opened just a little" so that war material could get to the Loyalists. There...