Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets by mobster adherents of Premier Largo Caballero, a courier dispatch from the New York Times correspondent declared: "A majority of Madrid's 850,000 inhabitants apparently hope that the military [White] insurgents will enter soon in order to save the Capital from proletarian misrule and Red Terror...
Super-Secrets. The office of whoever happens to be French Finance Minister is in the vast Palace of the Louvre at the end of interminable marble stairs. With its walls of red & gold, its enormous twinkling crystal chandeliers and its delicate and beautiful antique furniture, it resembles nothing so much as the boudoir of a Royal courtesan. In this setting last week heavy Radical Socialist Finance Minister Vincent Auriol, whose right eye droops half shut behind his tortoise-shell glasses, received correspondents in the dead of night. He had left President Lebrun and Premier Blum soon after midnight...
...cadets and soldiers under obstinate Commandant José Moscardó had withstood Red Militia assaults for the whole period of the Civil War. Against the six-foot walls of the Alcázar more than 6,000 four-inch projectiles and more than 4,000 six-inchers had been vainly fired by the Madrid Cabinet's untrained proletarian artillery. The Government's trained miners had failed to blow up the Alcázar's rock foundations with dynamite charges totaling four tons. Futile were thousands of gallons of gasoline shot from Red flame-sprayers. Futile were hundreds...
...greatest victory of Spain's present Civil War, swift-marching, ruthlessly bayoneting White regulars of the Spanish Army, the polyglot Foreign Legion and their tough Moorish mercenaries drove up to the city of Toledo by the back way last week, shot and stuck and butchered through Red Militia fighting like wildcats in the narrow streets with machine guns chattering on every corner, finally burst into the bloodier streets of the Old City and forced their way to its rocky heights to relieve the besieged Alcázar Fortress, the heroic West Point of Spain (TIME, Sept...
Atrocity-of-the-Week was reported from the north coast of Spain where mixed Anarchist-Basque-Red forces were still holding Bilbao (TIME, Sept. 21). Indignant at White air bombing of the city, Anarchist Militiawomen swarmed onto one of the three "prison ships" in the harbor aboard which White hostages were kept. Flying at these unarmed prisoners with knives, bayonets, and guns, the lady Anarchists killed a total of 220 of whom 30 were priests, mutilating and gashing until finally stopped by the intervention of Spanish Civil Guards. Theoretically these Guards were as much against the Whites as were...