Word: valencia
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...grim and intense proletarian defender of Madrid, Premier Largo Caballero, and his Cabinet climbed into automobiles, drove rapidly away to Valencia on the seacoast 24 hours after he had declared, like a Chinese general: "Under no circumstances will I abandon Madrid alive! If the insurgents break through, I will shoot myself...
Arriving in Valencia, 190 miles from Madrid, the Radical Cabinet manifestoed that they had "sacrificed everything to efficiency." Their flight they declared "does not imply any abandonment of the defense of Madrid, but on the contrary gives greater impulse to the final struggle...
This impulse Premier Largo Caballero gave by fairly burning up the wires in a telephone conversation from Valencia with luckless General José Miaja who had been left behind to defend the capital. He rushed from the phone to issue a blustering manifesto: "Courage! Our victory is certain. My mission is to defend Madrid at all costs. You must give up your lives before yielding another inch of ground!" Meanwhile Madrid syndicalist newspapers excitedly explained the Government's flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice...
...also awarded the second prize of $600 to spectacled French Post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard for a gaily colored still life of a breakfast table, the $500 third prize to a study of two stolid peasant women leaning over a table, the work of Spain's Pedro de Valencia...
Women and children, 12.000 of them, stood in crowds all day long before Madrid's railway station last week to be herded into trains and sent off to Valencia and safety. All night long picks and pneumatic drills echoed in the streets. Spain's Radical Government was digging trenches, building pill boxes for the bloody last battle with the Whites which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until...