Word: valencia
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...cartloads of worthless chromos, plaster statuettes and other knick-knacks back to the Junta. ¶ Though the Prado has been bombed by insurgent planes, all of its treasures have been saved. They were moved first to the basement, then to the vaults of the Bank of Spain, finally to Valencia. One of the last pictures to leave was Velasquez' greatest picture, the Surrender of Breda, better known as The Lances...
...maintain nominally friendly relations with Capitalist countries. Everyone knows that Stalin and Trotsky profess to be each other's worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Aug. 31) of which English Professor Henry Noel Brailsford wrote that it was based on "three manifest impossibilities." Watching the trial, New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny cabled "This correspondent confesses that...
...People, God, Culture, Communism and whatnot. White Generalissimo Francisco Franco had left the deadlocked siege of Madrid, flown south to sunny Seville and was starting an entirely new White offensive to drive the Spanish Cabinet of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, which fled from Madrid months ago, out of Valencia. Various airmen who flew for Largo Caballero before the bulk of his Soviet flyers arrived were trickling out of Spain last week. Said Chicago Airman Hal Du Berrier, reaching Paris: "I may fight in China next, Spain isn't to my taste. The Russians got everything into their hands...
...Valencia was still claiming to be the seat of Spanish Democracy this week but in its allied district of Catalonia the official Barcelona censor passed dispatches describing it as "Western Europe's First Communist State." Reports from both Spanish sides indicated that Stalin has now sent some of his best bombers and pursuit fighters to Spain, and that these Soviet craft are extremely fine machines, greatly surprising the Germans who had supposed until last week that it was enough for them to send such "old crates" as the French have been sending and as Madrid has been buying...
...Spain itself last week featured such curious things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...