Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintain nominally friendly relations with Capitalist countries. Everyone knows that Stalin and Trotsky profess to be each other's worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Aug. 31) of which English Professor Henry Noel Brailsford wrote that it was based on "three manifest impossibilities." Watching the trial, New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny cabled "This correspondent confesses that...
...People, God, Culture, Communism and whatnot. White Generalissimo Francisco Franco had left the deadlocked siege of Madrid, flown south to sunny Seville and was starting an entirely new White offensive to drive the Spanish Cabinet of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, which fled from Madrid months ago, out of Valencia. Various airmen who flew for Largo Caballero before the bulk of his Soviet flyers arrived were trickling out of Spain last week. Said Chicago Airman Hal Du Berrier, reaching Paris: "I may fight in China next, Spain isn't to my taste. The Russians got everything into their hands...
...Valencia was still claiming to be the seat of Spanish Democracy this week but in its allied district of Catalonia the official Barcelona censor passed dispatches describing it as "Western Europe's First Communist State." Reports from both Spanish sides indicated that Stalin has now sent some of his best bombers and pursuit fighters to Spain, and that these Soviet craft are extremely fine machines, greatly surprising the Germans who had supposed until last week that it was enough for them to send such "old crates" as the French have been sending and as Madrid has been buying...
...Spain itself last week featured such curious things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...
...Valencia up spoke the Air & Marine Minister of the Largo Caballero Cabinet, enormous Indalecio Prieto: "I surprised many and aroused the indignation of many others at the beginning of the war by predicting the fight would be long and hard. Everyone seemed to believe it would be a question of two or three weeks. I was right. And I believe it again safe to say that the conflict will extend at least through December, January and February and enter a far more intensive stage than the present battle for Madrid...