Word: alcala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Isaac Gabaldon was a Spanish Civil Guard investigator responsible for tracking down and turning over to military tribunals many Spanish Republicans. Despite thousands of former Loyalists imprisoned and executed by the New Spain, underground resistance remains. Fortnight ago Major Gabaldon's chauffeur halted his automobile near Alcala de Henares when three men in the uniform of Army captains raised their arms in a signal to stop. It was an ambush. Seven hitchhikers climbed in the car, shot the Major, his 17-year-old daughter, the chauffeur, then tossed the bodies into a ditch...
...Francisco Franco's advance for six weeks gave way to rain, Rightists were stopped in their tracks, then managed to resume their offensive, announced the taking of 2,000 Leftist prisoners, nearly all youths under 20. The Rightists accused their retreating foes of having massacred 100 civilians of Alcala de Chivert before evacuating this town, claimed on entering it to have found the Leftists had burned the mayor alive at a stake...
...possible fighting weather left before operations must cease for the long winter's siege. Since the Rightists cut the direct rail route from Valencia just a few miles outside Madrid, communication with the coast has been by road or by rail and then truck in from suburban Alcala de Henares. This route is now being made the course of a new railroad and the line from Madrid northeast to Huesca is being extended southeast to Utise for another rail connection to Valencia...
...President Niceto Alcala Zamora had no connection last week with either Spanish Rightists or Spanish Leftists, except that the latter have his two sons. "The Government of Valencia has thus pointed a contraband dagger at my heart by taking from me hostages beyond all price," wrote Alcala Zamora in the Journal de Geneve. "An aching heart has steeled itself by a supreme effort to recover the fullness of its liberty, the liberty of the pen and the liberty of action-action faithful to my convictions as a patriotic Republican...
...Government gave reign to the mob, tools in the hands of their leaders, to establish a Dictatorship of the Streets as well as over the Government itself," writes Alcala Zamora, describing events a few months before the Civil War began as he saw them as President of the Republic. "Anxiety increased. There was panic on the stock exchange. ... I lost all hope when I saw that four Governmental instructions had been framed with extraordinary partiality toward those who were culpable . . . [officials who] had supinely allowed the burning of churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive...