Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Madness. In September 1931 the peace system which for twelve years had ruled the world-the system of Britain's ex-Socialist Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, of France's ex-Socialist Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, of the U. S.'s Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and of their peace pacts-was at its prime...
...philosophy at the University of Madrid. Professor Besteiro was one of the large group of Left-wing Republicans who took power when the monarchy was overthrown in 1931. He was President of the Cortes when the new Republic was writing its Constitution, and many admired the way the Socialist Professor handled the unruly deputies in those uproarious days...
...arrested as a "Marxian criminal" when Madrid fell to the Nationalists. Last week 69-year-old Professor Besteiro stood tall and straight before a tribunal of three generals, one colonel and three lieutenant colonels while a court clerk read the long list of charges against him: he was a Socialist and had devoted his life to teaching doctrines that stir up the masses; he had done nothing to prevent the execution of conservatives by Madrid extremists; he was a member of a party that had been responsible for the deaths of Franco supporters...
Tough-minded Javier Bueno was a Socialist who, after the 1934 Republican-Socialist rebellion, was fined 32,000,000 pesetas and sentenced to death for being "ideologically responsible" for the rising. The death sentence was commuted to 30 years' imprisonment, but for good measure some officers of the Foreign Legion hanged Javier Bueno from the wall of his office in a harness of barbed wire and fed him copies of his Avance. Bueno got out of prison in the general amnesty that followed the 1936 elections and refused to join Largo Caballero's revolutionary movement. But when...
This deal was soon voided when Spain's Republican Government nationalized the potash fields. Since Russian potash (fully occupied feeding the soil of the steppes) was the only other European rebel against Cartel discipline, German and French potash magnates sniffed the rise of a rival Socialist combine. So did their London bankers and sales agents-J. Henry Schroder & Co.-a firm which is an economic booster of the Rome-Berlin Axis. Franco's victory ended their fears, brought Spain back into the potash axis...