Word: syndicalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than when he had a political martyr to defend. Violently anticlerical and stanchly antimonarchist, he could have stepped right out of a Blasco Ibañez novel. He was such an individualist that no pat modern political name-calling would fit him, no government could have suited him. More a syndicalist than anything else, he belonged to the fast dwindling group of Spanish Federalists...
...considers himself afloat in a socio-economic chaos, he also claims to have a navigation chart that explains it. How he discovered this chart is a long story, requiring 44 pages to tell. The story, told in Dynamite and here expanded, is that of the McNamara case and the Syndicalist dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in 1910. For Adamic, who heard the story from an old Socialist in 1928, violence "à la McNamara" is the chart that explains the conflict between Capital & Labor, between Right & Left, together with all other U. S. Sargassoan social incongruities. Put simply, says...
...only chief of the army, but chief of all Rightist Spain's political, social and economic activities. Like Germany and Italy (and Russia) in fact, in theory, Rightist Spain is a one-party country. The party is called the Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas. Actually, Rightist Spain is no more dominated by one party than Leftist Spain. The little villagers of the northwest are ablaze with the slogan: ONE COUNTRY, ONE ARMY, ONE CAUDILLO. But no such unity prevails among the wildly assorted groups which are loosely allied in support of the Spanish Fascist State...
...Largo Caballero remained silently aloof while a new Cabinet was formed by stocky. 48-year-old Dr. Juan Negrin, Socialist Finance Minister under Premier Largo Caballero. The new Cabinet, reduced from 19 to nine members, was immediately accepted by President Manuel Azaña, but the Anarcho-Syndicalist Union (the C.N.T.) declared it would "not collaborate." Madrid's defender, capable General José Miaja, avoided the whole...
...Fascist Grand Council, to help him rule Spain's Rightist territories and eventually "to supplant the Madrid-Valencia Government." All political parties were outlawed by General Franco except the one under his command, which received this impressive title: The Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas...