Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Loyalist resistance in northern Catalonia collapsed, and in a swift advance northward from Gerona the Rebel Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco occupied Figueras, for eleven days the fourth capital of Loyalist Spain. As last as their transport could keep up with them, they bore down on the frontier towns of Port-Bou, La Junquera and Puigcerda. It was only a matter of hours before the Generalissimo would wipe out the only remaining Loyalist territory in northern Spain and be master of the Spanish side of the French-Spanish frontier from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean...
Figueras' existence as the fourth capital of the Spanish Republic was brief, tragic and historic. Almost from the time the ministries were established in the little town (normal pop. 14,000) Rebel bombers began smashing it. In one day's raids 300 were reported killed, 800 wounded. At its fall the city was entirely deserted...
Also in Perpignan popped up Jose Maria Sert, Spain's best known modern mural painter. As Generalissimo Francisco Franco's art representative, he wanted to check over the paintings which may soon -under the Loyalists' own terms-become Rebel Spain's property. Señor Sert declared himself satisfied that the paintings had been taken good care of, that they were all intact. On their nation's art Rebel and Loyalist had agreed...
...high hill of Montjuich commanding Barcelona's harbor they saw a white flag flying from the fortress. When General Garcia Valino's soldiers climbed the summit of Tibidabo, on the west, and looked down upon the city gleaming in brilliant sunshine, they saw white sheets, towels and Rebel red & gold bunting flying from windows and housetops...
Other points covered by the Führer included : 1) warning Western nations not to interfere in "matters concerning us alone" [i.e., pogroms]; 2) denouncing the Jews and Bolshevism; 3) claiming no one is persecuted for purely religious beliefs in Germany; 4) hailing the Rebel successes in Spain as a "valiant defeat of the newest universal attempt to destroy the European cultured world"; 5) notifying the U. S. to keep her hands off German trade with South America...