Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vexing socialists in many lands: whether those Communist forces which have made the Soviet Union what it is today-the Stalinist forces - now largely dominate Leftist Spain or not. Last month worried Manhattan socialists sent Associate Editor Sam Baron of the Socialist Call to investigate conditions in Barcelona and Valencia where were occurring the trials of several prominent Spanish labor leaders for fomenting "Trotskyist riots." Mr. Baron, onetime New York president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been active in leading U. S. organizations working for Leftist Spain. Instead of being permitted to "observe conditions" in Valencia, Socialist Baron...
...that an overwhelming majority of farmers and workers distrust the present Prieto-Communist coalition," continued Mr. Baron, referring to the Spanish Leftist Government in which Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto overshadows both Premier Dr. Juan Negrin and President Manuel Azaña. This Government's removal of itself from Valencia to Barcelona (TIME, Nov. 3), Socialist Baron reported, "has been very unpopular, both as an admission of failure and because of the political complications that are likely to follow. The failure of the Government to win any victory has depressed the population. Even the Brunete offensive, which was intended...
...general poor soldiers. For a full year they frankly shirked their full share of Leftist fighting, partly because not one foot of Catalan territory is yet invaded by Rightist troops. Now, suddenly, they find that not only has their autonomous Catalan Government been practically swallowed by the Valencia regime, which fortnight ago moved its Spanish Leftist Government in on them at Barcelona, but that after 18 months of playing at war, they are about to be subjected to the fiercest offensive El Caudillo Franco, his Italian, Moorish and German allies can muster. United Press Correspondent Irving Pflaum, visiting the Aragon...
...became evident, after touring the Loyalist front, that the shattered spirits of the Catalans constituted the principal reason for moving the Government from Valencia to Barcelona over the weekend...
...Government planned to go to Barcelona as early as last November but decided temporarily on Valencia. . . . Barcelona now in its turn has the significance of showing the clear fidelity of the Government toward Catalonia...