Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy were Leftist losses in the recent surprise offensive around Madrid that the Valencia Government could not spare a single division to help their Basque allies last week. They could spare some planes, 32 of them with Russian and French pilots arrived at Bilbao to help the defense...
Civilian Rule. The smell of spring survived the stench of corpses in Madrid last week. A few almond trees bravely retained their bloom as the Rightists continued to flail Madrid day after day with unremitting shellfire. And from Valencia, where Leftist Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was still seeking refuge, an order was sent to Madrid dissolving Madrid's Supreme Defense Junta, headed by formidable General José Miaja who for almost six months has been the Capital's all-powerful boss. Because Madrid had been shelled for 13 consecutive days Premier Largo Caballero felt that General Miaja...
...side, General Franco formed his own 20-man Junta, modeled on Italy's Fascist Grand Council, to help him rule Spain's Rightist territories and eventually "to supplant the Madrid-Valencia Government." All political parties were outlawed by General Franco except the one under his command, which received this impressive title: The Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas...
Additional help to the pro-Leftists came from the pious Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, the white-thatched Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, who reached Valencia last week after a personal tour of the Basque provinces and other Leftist territory in Spain...
...northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...