Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration off Valencia to warn the Spanish Leftist Government not to do any more "denting" with submarines or torpedoes. In the House of Commons open charges had been heard that the whole "Leipzig incident" was a Nazi fiction or nightmare. The visit of Baron von Neurath to London was expected to reduce feverish...
When the German Cabinet convened, the Führer spoke with rising fervor for nearly an hour and a half. The condensed official summary issued afterward ran to nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...
...Santander knowing that every day's delay would help Santander rally its defenses. Cracked soon it had to be if Spain is to be conquered and Madrid captured this summer. Leftist Madrid has talked of taking a general offensive ever since the Negrin Government came into power in Valencia. Lack of material and properly trained men has always been the Leftists' greatest handicap. But time is on the side of the Loyalists, Generalissimo Franco knows, and if he wins his war he must win it soon...
...Valencia Government did what it could last week to relieve pressure on Bilbao. It kept the Aragon front crackling with action. Against Cordoba in the south a major drive was started. For the first time in weeks Leftist planes bombed the outskirts of Salamanca, field headquarters of Generalissimo Franco...
...anything that did not follow the lead of London, Mr. Hull faced the dilemma of our neutrality legislation. If we follow London we are the tail-end of the League of Nations; if not, we may suffer embarrassment as in the Ethiopian affair. If the United States labels Valencia as a "belligerent" without treating Germany and Italy similarly, it appears to be discriminating against the Loyalist government of Spain...