Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian plan was to do something quickly to restore Italy's battered military prestige. Santander, once the favorite yachting centre of the Basque Riviera, is less protected by mountains than is Bilbao. There are not more than 5,000 exhausted Basque militiamen to guard it, and though Valencia has been able to sneak a few planes through to Santander in recent weeks, a service it could not perform for Bilbao, the overwhelmingly superior Rightist forces on the Basque front ought to be able to capture Santander in less than a week, any time the order is issued. Thousands...
Meanwhile, northeast of Madrid, Rightist forces have pushed a long finger down from Zaragoza toward Valencia in the hope of cutting the communication line between Madrid and the sea. Theoretically responsible for this Teruel east front is the Leftist city of Barcelona, second largest in Spain, but Barcelona has been so busy with its bloody squabbles between Anarchists, Communists, Socialists and Left Republicans that it has been disgracefully lax at the front for almost a year...
Emerging from Valencia, the Leftist Capital, Correspondent William F. McDermott of North American Newspaper Alliance added his bit last week to uncensored lore of Spain's Civil War. "I should guess, on the basis of what is clear to the eyes here," he jotted in his notebook before leaving Valencia, "that a Franco victory will result in the creation of the most radical Fascist State that the world has known. A Valencia victory is similarly likely to end in the institution of a Communistic State that will make Russia look like a haven of economic royalists. No one talks...
...Until recently the Spaniards flying for Valencia were not numerous and not very good. Several weeks ago, however, about...
...first anniversary of the assassination in Madrid last year of Rightist Martyr No. i, onetime Finance Minister Jose Calvo Sotelo who was taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines near Bilbao (now Rightist) had taken from them the first shipload of ore dispatched...