Word: teruel
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...wholly responsible for their rapid advance. They have met comparatively little resistance. On March 9 they struck on a weak front, a front which for the most part had been quiet for a year and a half, at a time when the international brigade was resting after the Teruel offensive...
...Leftist infantry in the Guadarrama Mountains, at Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of danger on a diplomatic mission to France. Last June it let him return for six months of sketching along the front from Madrid to Teruel. After showing his drawings in Barcelona last December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship for the U. S. In a little studio on Washington Square near the house of his host, Writer Jay Allen, he has lately been doing his first painting...
Leftist officials said this was a Spanish battle of Jutland,* would end Franco's threat to blockade the Loyalist east coast. Jubilantly announced Foreign Minister José Giral Pereira at Barcelona: "The engagement is as important as was the taking of Teruel.† It inaugurates a new phase in the war activities of the navy." The enraged Rightists retaliated by sending out war planes which attacked Cartagena five times, raining bombs on the Government naval base. Leftists denied suffering any serious damage...
...Leftist Government immediately ordered two more classes to the colors. Each man drafted was ordered to "bring to the People's Army a pair of shoes, blanket, plate, knife, fork and spoon." The Leftist surprise offensive on Dec. 19, which captured Teruel, was the first major victory of the new People's Army. In canceling that victory last week General Franco did not himself win a major victory. For the expenditure of two months' time many lives and much materiel- none of which he could well spare-all he had to show was a wider Teruel salient...
...been clear almost from the start that forces outside Spain would decide this civil war. Last week the fall of Teruel happened to coincide with a general realization among Spaniards that Chamberlain, Hitler, Chautemps and Mussolini are now dickering toward a four-power agreement (see col. 2). Its effect would be to rule out any victory in Spain for the extreme Left-Communists, Anarchists and the more radical Socialists. General Franco's friends in Britain have always maintained he was ready for a "reasonable Spanish compromise," and with Hitler and Mussolini now telling Chamberlain they want not a square...