Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss of no other city or area could be as ruinous to the Spanish Republic's fate as Barcelona's. Spain's most important seaport, its industrial mainspring, its metropolis, Barcelona in Rebel hands would probably lead directly to the conquest of the rest of Loyalist Catalonia, a wiping out of the Madrid-Valencia area, the ultimate victory of Fascism in Spain...
Whether Barcelona fell or not, however, the Government had its last-ditch plans: The fight would continue in northern Catalonia. If that were taken, the Government would move back to southern Spain. If that, too, fell, if they lost Valencia and Madrid, the fight would still be continued underground...
Sweeping past Montserrat, the high mountain on which the most famous of Spain's monasteries stands, the Rebels' western force pressed on toward the high range of hills, highest of which is Tibidabo, at Barcelona's back door. Barcelona's last-ditch stand would come before Tibidabo was reached, since the Rebel capture of it would mean certain conquest of the city...
Bearded, scholarly Dr. Fernando de los Rios, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., no friend to clericalism in Spain, invited a number of U. S. Catholics to visit Loyalist Spain, see for themselves that there is today no religious persecution. Ambassador de los Rios received a prompt reply from one of the invitees, blunt, Irish-born Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore. Calling the Ambassador a "common, ordinary liar," the Archbishop said...
That night in Washington some 800 delegates representing 274 organizations met to urge lifting the embargo. A rival "Keep the Embargo" meeting packed in 4,000, turned 2,000 away. Adroitly its sponsors presented not only Catholic churchmen as speakers but a Protestant onetime Ambassador to Spain, Irwin Laughlin, and a one time counsel of President Roosevelt (during his second term as Governor of New York State), Martin Conboy, who argued neutrality's case...