Word: vizcaya
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Civic Exercise. The strikers began boycotting shops, and a Communist radio station in Prague beamed encouragement to them. Worried by the draining of some $200 million from the Spanish economy, Franco finally declared a state of emergency. To the three northern provinces of Asturias, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya, he rushed reinforcements of armed police and civil guard units, partially suspended the fuero (the Spanish bill of rights). Said one Spaniard: "The only time we ever hear about the fuero is when it's suspended...
...Guernica, twelve miles northeast of Bilbao, is the ancient seat of Basque democracy. At the sacred Oak of Guernica (now a dried old stump), the Kings of Spain used to swear to protect Basque rights, whereupon the citizens would confer on the sovereign the title of Senor de Vizcaya...
...destruction of Guernica will forever rank as the prototype of totalitarian bombing. There one had the systematic and complete obliteration of a town far behind the front lines-which was going to be taken without difficulty anyway, since the Loyalist troops were routed. ... It was the heart of Vizcaya, and to smash it was to break the heart of the Basques...
Beleaguered Bilbao, Though British freighters finally succeeded in getting food supplies to the hungry Basques of Bilbao (see p. 19), this last Leftist stronghold of the northwest seemed crumbling at week's end. After weeks of hard fighting and skilled maneuver in the mountains of Vizcaya Province, the Rightists under General Mola finally captured Durango and Eibar, key towns, but 16 and 25 mi. from Bilbao. With Eibar in flames and the road to Bilbao teeming with Basque troops in "headlong flight," rumor spread from Hendaye on the French frontier that the Loyalists in Bilbao had asked foreign diplomats...
...poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming in the flood. After aerial surveys the Red Cross reported some 1,500 square miles inundated in Nueva Vizcaya, 2,000 square miles in Isabela; homeless, 80,000, missing, 1,000, known dead...