Word: aragon
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...final collapse of the Basque defense liberated some 50,000 Rightist troops for use on other fronts-and none too soon, for the Leftists immediately loosed a savage but apparently unsuccessful drive on Saragossa, the Rightist advance base on the Aragon front. 200 miles to the southeast. The Basque collapse also all but completely nipped off that little Leftist island on the north coast which has so long blemished the otherwise total dominance of the northern and western half of Spain by the Rightist forces. This territory last week was populated by 14,000,000 of Spain...
...have rarely felt so compelled to take account of public interest for good or ill as in the fourth decade of the 20th Century. Putting foot to spade in Europe they have turned over so many clodfuls of dead cultural matter that their most vivid talents. Joyce, Auden, MacDiarmid. Aragon, seem hell-bitten to innocent readers. Among affirmatory fledglings, Revolution or at least the advance of the masses has easily displaced Love and Death...
...Valencia Government did what it could last week to relieve pressure on Bilbao. It kept the Aragon front crackling with action. Against Cordoba in the south a major drive was started. For the first time in weeks Leftist planes bombed the outskirts of Salamanca, field headquarters of Generalissimo Franco...
...were leaving the way open for a raid from General Franco's Rightists. No such raid came, but before peace was restored over 300 people had been killed and according to reports the Valencia Government, to police Barcelona, had had to withdraw 12.000 badly needed troops from the Aragon front. Heretofore careful to avoid mixing in local Catalan squabbles, Valencia also moved in General Sebastian Pozas to be military commander of Catalonia...
...future worth. With all sorts and conditions of people from which to choose, the scholarship committee cannot possibly draw up examinations that will suit the scholastic training and social and environmental background of candidates all over the country. But the aptitude questions, ranging from multiplication tables to Catherine of Aragon's domestic life, by their very broadness have demonstrated their value as indicators of potential intellectual prowess...