Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftists were withdrawn last week for a rest from Teruel, where 700 U. S. citizens and 300 Canadians were revealed to have been fighting on New Year's Eve. The Karl Marx battalion was still fighting at Teruel last week, and volunteer casualties were indicated by Valencia dispatches saying the Internationals required 525 "replacements...
...capital of Loyalist Spain was recently moved to (1 Madrid, 2 Valencia, 3 Barcelona, 4 Toledo, 5 San Sebastian...
Defense of the capital lay in the Fifth Regiment's hands. Few thought it could succeed, least of all the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Socialist Extremist Francisco Largo Caballero. Packing up in haste, the Cabinet fled the capital secretly for Valencia, leaving official instructions for greying, amiable, José Miaja to defend Madrid or surrender as he thought best. At this point the Communist leaders of the Fifth Regiment issued a historic manifesto to all Madrid citizens telling them to build barricades in the streets, to fill bottles with gasoline for use as homemade incendiary bombs against tanks...
...People's Army now headed by General Pozas still lacks sufficient planes, heavy artillery and junior officers, but it has a unified organization, uniforms, better food than the civilians of Madrid or Valencia, at least five weeks' training of recruits before going into the lines (six months for officers) and a basic pay of ten pesetas a day (60?). Three pesetas was the average pay of Spanish farm hands before the civil war. Leftist Spain confidently faces the new year with a new army...
...Hollywood scenarists, returned from a Spanish junket last fall, their strong feminine sympathies were all on the side of the Loyalists. Fortnight ago, in a restaurant tête-à-tête with her good friend Mr. Winchell, Miss Hellman told a harrowing tale of mad nights in Valencia and Madrid when she saw non-combatants dodge into shell-pocked doorways to escape death from...