Word: valencias
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...Leftists were withdrawn last week for a rest from Teruel, where 700 U. S. citizens and 300 Canadians were revealed to have been fighting on New Year's Eve. The Karl Marx battalion was still fighting at Teruel last week, and volunteer casualties were indicated by Valencia dispatches saying the Internationals required 525 "replacements...
...capital of Loyalist Spain was recently moved to (1 Madrid, 2 Valencia, 3 Barcelona, 4 Toledo, 5 San Sebastian...
...Maurice Ravel, who died early in 1938, was best known to Americans for his composition (1 Rhapsody in Blue, 2 Firefly, 3 By the Waters of Minnetunka, 4 Bolero, 5 Valencia...
...People's Army now headed by General Pozas still lacks sufficient planes, heavy artillery and junior officers, but it has a unified organization, uniforms, better food than the civilians of Madrid or Valencia, at least five weeks' training of recruits before going into the lines (six months for officers) and a basic pay of ten pesetas a day (60?). Three pesetas was the average pay of Spanish farm hands before the civil war. Leftist Spain confidently faces the new year with a new army...
...Hollywood scenarists, returned from a Spanish junket last fall, their strong feminine sympathies were all on the side of the Loyalists. Fortnight ago, in a restaurant tête-à-tête with her good friend Mr. Winchell, Miss Hellman told a harrowing tale of mad nights in Valencia and Madrid when she saw non-combatants dodge into shell-pocked doorways to escape death from...