Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim and intense proletarian defender of Madrid, Premier Largo Caballero, and his Cabinet climbed into automobiles, drove rapidly away to Valencia on the seacoast 24 hours after he had declared, like a Chinese general: "Under no circumstances will I abandon Madrid alive! If the insurgents break through, I will shoot myself...
Arriving in Valencia, 190 miles from Madrid, the Radical Cabinet manifestoed that they had "sacrificed everything to efficiency." Their flight they declared "does not imply any abandonment of the defense of Madrid, but on the contrary gives greater impulse to the final struggle...
...also awarded the second prize of $600 to spectacled French Post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard for a gaily colored still life of a breakfast table, the $500 third prize to a study of two stolid peasant women leaning over a table, the work of Spain's Pedro de Valencia...
Women and children, 12.000 of them, stood in crowds all day long before Madrid's railway station last week to be herded into trains and sent off to Valencia and safety. All night long picks and pneumatic drills echoed in the streets. Spain's Radical Government was digging trenches, building pill boxes for the bloody last battle with the Whites which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until...
Only one last road from Madrid to the sea was open last week, the 294-mile railway to Valencia. Having cut off the Capital from all other avenues of succor or escape, the White Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco were advancing with such vigor that Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet were daily rumored, via Rebel sources, on the point of flight. Disciplined effectiveness suddenly appeared in the roving mobs of Premier Largo Caballero's proletarian militiamen. These have fought bravely enough time and again, but too often only in their own good time and place. This week they...