Word: valencia
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...next to its military defender, General Jose Miaja, a strict professional in horn-rimmed spectacles. The so-called Madrid Government had dispersed (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 16). Its president, Don Manuel Azana, a Republican, was in Barcelona last week and its Premier, Francisco Largo Caballero, a Marxian, was in Valencia with the rest of the Cabinet. In a manifesto they claimed to be supported by the Soviet Union and by the Mexican Republic...
Meantime Fugitive Premier Francisco Largo Caballero's Radical Cabinet, from their refuge in Valencia, rushed food and ammunition back to their Madrid comrades by railroad, for a successful sally by the Red militia had resulted in effective communications being reopened between Madrid and the seacoast. As 40 new Red planes of an unmistakable French pattern roared over the Capital, thousands rushed into the streets to welcome them with hysterical cheers...
Last week from his temporary capital at Valencia President Azana of the Spanish Republic made another plea to the democratic countries of the world to come to the aid of Spain. He remarked that although while Madrid was held by the Loyalists Great Britain and France, along with the other "neutral" nations, would give that city no aid, he expected a different situation to prevail in the event the capital fell into rebel hands. President Azana lacked imagination. Now these self-styled "neutrals" will not have to wait until the defenders of Madrid are routed. Recognition by Germany and Italy...
...Madrid. The Ministry of Interior, police headquarters and the French Embassy were all barely missed by screaming shells, but a small one landed in the onetime Royal Palace of Alfonso XIII, now the Palace of the President. Don Manuel Azaña, who fled last month not to Valencia but to Barcelona (TIME...
...Soviet Ambassador to Madrid, Comrade Rosenberg, had meanwhile departed with his staff to open up again as the Soviet Embassy in Valencia. This week courageous diplomatic underlings at the U. S. and British Embassies used their short-wave radios to get out of the besieged capital the only uncensored and even approximately trustworthy dispatches. Time and again they corrected rumors that Madrid had fallen, and although what they sent could not be printed, editors were kept posted by the State Department in Washington and the British Foreign Office. Madrid's defenders appeared to have more airplanes and more ammunition...