Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also make a flank attack on the Rightist stronghold of Saragossa possible. To Generalissimo Franco the threat to Jaca had an even gloomier significance: it meant that the Aragon Front, consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football with their adversaries between the lines have been replaced by trained troops eager to fight. Up to the breach Caudillo ("Chief") Franco rushed divisions of Italians that would have had more than enough...
...there down past Teruel, rocky hills and easily defended passes make actual trenches unnecessary, but the strong points here are well built, well defended, so much so that neutral observers agree that Generalissimo Franco's old scheme, to drive a wedge from Teruel to the sea thus breaking Valencia's communications with Madrid, is no longer practicable. Conversely, Teruel itself is immune to direct Leftist attack. West of Teruel to the Guadarrama Mountains is one of the two sectors in the entire line where no formal fortifications exist. In this barren rocky country such fighting as takes place...
Twice last week General Queipo de Llano was in the news. From Valencia came word that his sister Rosario, a Leftist hostage since immediately after the beginning of the war, had finally been released from jail in an exchange of prisoners. From his headquarters at Seville came a story of an attempt to kidnap the radio general himself. Weeks ago General Queipo de Llano set out on an inspection trip of the lines north of Córdoba. Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur...
...Largo Caballero Leftists, is only too glad to have "The Spanish Lenin" exposed. According to Minister of Education Jesus Hernández, the Largo Caballero Cabinet on Nov. 6, when Madrid's fall seemed imminent, left a note with the janitor of their headquarters and quietly skipped to Valencia. That evening famed General José Miaja, military defender of Madrid, happened to come around to see Premier Largo Caballero, was told by the janitor: "I have a letter for you, but my orders are that you should not receive it until...
...France last week the Leftist submarine C-2 still lay tied up in the harbor awaiting repairs that were started three weeks ago. Out of the darkness appeared eleven Spaniards, one Frenchman in civilian clothes. They clambered down the companionway with word that they bore special sealed orders from Valencia. The C-2's commander, José Luis Ferrando, met his guests formally in the companionway, suddenly found himself squinting down the muzzles of a dozen pistols. The visitors actually were renegade Leftist officers from another Valencia submarine, the C4, also up for repairs at Bordeaux, attempting to kidnap...