Word: valencia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading room of the U.S. Consulate at Valencia, 40 young Spaniards sprawled in cozy comfort. They pored over OWI Spanish-language publications, gazed at the bright posters glorifying the U.S. war effort...
With economic life upturned by the long struggle, the cost of living has increased 50% in Spain in the past year. Wages have not gone up. Bread lines in Catalonia are longer than during the blockade of the Republic. In Valencia, famed for its arroz dishes, there is a scarcity of rice. Aristocrats dine at Madrid's Ritz on chick peas. Butter, eggs, meat, oil. coffee and sugar are rationed, when they...
Then came World War II and with it a British-French blockade of German ports, German-Spanish trade dwindled. Oranges piled up on Valencia's docks, the iron ore of the Basque littoral could no longer be shipped to Hamburg. Generalissimo Franco, although holding Britain and France responsible for this "absurd" war, agreed to talk trade. For three months Frenchmen and Spaniards dickered. Once France broke off negotiations, said that ungrateful Spain did not realize the extent of her concessions. Spain retaliated by closing her border to what little trade had been allowed to cross the French frontier...