Word: prieto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Dr. Juan Negrin abruptly dropped out of his Cabinet the moderate Leftist who has been the key man of the regime, National Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, the builder of the People's Army and, as such, comparable to Leon Trotsky, the exiled builder of the Red Army. Nominally the Premier took over the portfolio of Defense himself, but he gave overriding control of the People's Army to able Communist Jesus Hernandez, named him General War Commissar...
...were promptly shipped by the French back by rail to Loyalist territory. From Barcelona the U. S. diplomatic mission moved 20 miles nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco Franco might not stop in Spain but smash right on into the French Republic...
...unbombed in a tapestry-hung medieval chamber, the Deputies met for three hours, with several members of the British, French, Yugoslav, Norwegian and Swedish parliaments looking on as guests. No attempt was made to legislate. When the Premier, generally regarded as a front man for Socialist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, mentioned Prieto's name and coupled it with the People's Army (see p. 15}, he drew the one loud cheer...
...Government," wrote Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, "is willing to consider any initiative tending to mutual agreement to cast aside such warfare, which beside shedding innocent blood, accelerates the ruin of Spain...
...almost the same time Valencia's crowded tenements were bombed almost as severely. Leftist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto claimed this was a Rightist "attempt to assassinate" seven British Laborite M.P.'s who had been visiting Valencia's law courts, were on their way to a luncheon at the officers' training camp. The nearest bomb fell at least a quarter of a mile away, but the Rightist's radiorating Queipo de Llano soon made priceless Leftist propaganda by bellowing that the British Laborites are "Marxist scoundrels and a pack of savages whom we will punish...