Word: talavera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest achievement of Man's Hope is not in its characterizations but in the graphic intensity of isolated scenes. A bomber emerging into calm moonlight after blowing up the gasworks at Talavera de la Reina; a fire fighter in Madrid atop his ladder, turning his fire hose in a last, hopeless, defiant gesture against an airplane machine-gunning him; Asturian dinamiteros, "the last body of men who can face the machine on equal terms," crawling forward to meet advancing tanks outside Toledo; the crew of a wrecked bomber carried out of the mountains by peasants, the long, winding, anguished...
Meantime, fruitless air bombings continued. Rightist planes bombed Valencia, killed 125 people including Arnold Crone, captain of a British freighter loading oranges in the harbor. In retaliation, Leftist planes again bombed Salamanca, Valladolid, Talavera. To end this senseless waste of good munitions and useless murder of civilians the Leftist Government proposed a truce on the bombing of any objective not in the area of combat by planes of either side...
...shot. Meantime White bombers winged over Madrid, plunked seven bombs on the U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Building, largest structure in the city. In retaliation for Generalissimo Franco's bombing of Madrid on Christmas Day, Red operatives secretly installed a series of bombs in a roadbed near Talavera de la Reina, blew up a 23-car train of White troops, killing hundreds...
...Caballero Cabinet claimed to be "resuming the offensive on all fronts." With what they have been able to buy in France and have been sent by Russia, the Spanish Premier at Valencia and Spanish President Manuel Azaña at Barcelona got their Red militia going in drives on Talavera de la Reina, El Escorial and Toledo near Madrid and, on the north coast of Spain, started a drive toward Burgos which, since the sixth day of the war, has been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo...
Gasoline squirting by Reds began with a frantic will, for meanwhile a White army under Generalissimo Francisco Franco had at last decisively taken Talavera de la Reina (see p. 19) and, advancing five miles per day, was within 25 miles of the Alcázar when torches were applied and gasoline blazed high. Cheering wildly a Red column swept up the rocky base of the fortress-only to be driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia...