Word: prieto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Former Republican Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, General Jose Miaja and a whole host of lesser fry were in Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio...
...business-like self-confidence, beneath the surface Chile was jittery. No one knew just how far the Popular Front would go with a revolutionary program of social reform. Popular Frontists, 80,000 strong, jammed Santiago's new National Stadium to demonstrate for Loyalist Spain and greet Indaledo Prieto, former Loyalist defense minister who had made a special trip to be at the Aguirre Cerda inaugural. But reports of a Rightist Putsch to regain control lost in the close election continued to buzz through the country...
Died. Manuel Garcia Prieto, Marqués de Alhucemas, 78, onetime (1917-23) Premier of Royalist Spain; in Burgos. When, few months before Primo de Rivera's 1923 coup, he was publicly asked whether a military clique was planning to take over the Government, the Marqués replied: "If it were true they would have to pass over my dead body." Thereafter friends & enemies alike called him "The Corpse...
...mortality of statesmen and generals was also high. Hard-boiled Socialist Francisco Largo Caballero, miscalled the "Spanish Lenin," first Minister of Labor under the Republic, former president of the Bricklayers' Union, was Premier for eight months, then was rudely ousted and forgotten. Former newsboy, ex-publisher Socialist Indalecio Prieto, builder of the Leftist People's Army, writer of brutally frank war communiques, for a year Minister of Defense, took his marching papers after the disastrous Aragon defeat last spring...
Spanish brown bears, frightened by the clash of Rightist and Leftist forces among the crags of the Pyrenees, came loping in large numbers over the frontier into France last week. Another refugee from North Leftist Spain was the Socialist who built its People's Army, famed Indalecio Prieto. Traveling by car with two women of his family and a secretary, Socialist Prieto said shortly to correspondents at the frontier: "Yes, we are driving up to Paris, but I have no mission...