Word: prieto
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...certain that the time was far from ripe for practical action. London and Washington still stood on good diplomatic terms with Madrid. Unless they were ready to add intervention in Spain to their other problems, there was little they could yet do to bring to pass Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto's modest proposal: that the Spanish people, in accordance with the Atlantic Charter, be allowed freely to elect their own government...
...Government decreed surrender to a joint Government-refugee commission of the fabulous Vita treasure, smuggled from Spain by Juan Negrin, hijacked at sea by Negrin's onetime mentor Indalecio Prieto, and subsequently the cause célèbre of Spanish refugee politics. Valued between 70 and 300 million dollars, the treasure is coveted by the Franco Government, as well as by the refugees...
When Spanish War Minister Indalecio Prieto visited Mexico, he went to watch Cantinflas, advised Cardenas to put a stop to his joshing. Said he: "You ought to stop this. It was by permitting such ridicule of the Spanish Republican Government that we lost public confidence resulting in our downfall." Ignored was Prieto's advice. Cantinflas is now popularizing a new verb in the Mexican language. The verb is "cantinflear," which means to talk much, say little, indulge in wild non sequiturs. Cantinflas constantly rebuffs German propagandists eager to use the popular theatre in Mexico...
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...