Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Loyalist Government called out all men under 55 to dig trenches and build fortifications on the city's outskirts. Women replaced men in restaurants, hotels, gasoline stations, shops, factories. The U. S. cruiser Omaha was called from Villefranche, France, to pick up 30 U. S. citizens still remaining in the city, while the British cruiser Devonshire and destroyer Greyhound stood by off Barcelona ready to aid the exit of Britons...
...what might well be its last hours under the Spanish Republic. When a Loyalist squadron gave fight to Rebel attackers in a midday raid, the people ran out in the streets and cheered wildly. The rumble of Rebel artillery was distinctly heard. Until martial law was declared movies were still crowded, the opera was beginning another series. Evacuation of the civilian population northward began, the first to be transferred being children and prisoners. Some of the more valuable Government records were moved to Gerona, a city of 22,000 inhabitants 55 miles north of Barcelona...
...before the bombings the citizens of Eire were startled to find their principal streets plastered with a proclamation issued by the illegal, fanatically nationalist Irish Republican Army. The proclamation also appeared in Northern Ireland, the six counties still under British rule. In England, while police officials chased around after the bombers, copies of the proclamation were posted in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham. It called for militant action against Britain to force the long-sought union of all Ireland under one Republic, proclaimed...
...Edouard Daladier's Cabinet decided to adhere to strict nonintervention, keep the border sealed, let the Spanish Loyalists sink or swim on their own. All week their boat sank lower in the water. An army man himself, for nearly three years Minister of National Defense (a job he still holds as Premier). M. Daladier could scarcely have failed to realize the dangers of letting a puppet of Italy and Germany take over all Spain. It was reported that he wanted to help the Loyalists, but French diplomacy was again stymied, as it had been when Germany rearmed the Rhineland...