Word: valencia
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...quite justifiably, to whom the ambulance will go. It is not to be turned over to the Spanish government, but rather to an American medical unit, staffed by American doctors and nurses it will render strictly medical aid to wounded soldiers and civilians, in the territory held by the Valencia government, elected by the Spanish people in the spring...
...Valencia last week the six-month-old Government of greying, pugnacious Premier Francisco Largo Caballero fell. In the midst of the political crisis a flight of Rightist warplanes swept in from the open Mediterranean raining light bombs. They wrecked a streetcar, smashed windows, killed the cook and wounded the doorman of the British Embassy...
...their offices. Valencia's politicos paid little attention. Air raids were an everyday matter: here was a different kind of crisis. Everybody expected Premier Largo Caballero to succeed himself, everybody knew why he had forced out his own Cabinet...
Rugged individualists like most Spaniards, the Barcelonians have decked their buildings with many a discordant banner: the five-barred red-&-yellow flag of Catalonia, the red-yellow-&-purple of the Valencia Republic, the red flag of Communism, the black-&-red banner of Anarcho-Syndicalists. There are a number of other parties of varying opinions, all demanding a share in the Government. Nowhere else in the world are Communists so decisively ranked among the conservatives. That is because in Catalonia, Communists believe in discipline, as opposed to the free-for-all philosophy of the pure Anarchists, largest and most troublesome group...
...Companys called for peace and unity to face the common foe, warned that the Catalans were leaving the way open for a raid from General Franco's Rightists. No such raid came, but before peace was restored over 300 people had been killed and according to reports the Valencia Government, to police Barcelona, had had to withdraw 12.000 badly needed troops from the Aragon front. Heretofore careful to avoid mixing in local Catalan squabbles, Valencia also moved in General Sebastian Pozas to be military commander of Catalonia...