Word: catalonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressman Murphy and Mrs. Murphy had just dropped into the capital by air. Meanwhile, six other U.S. Congressmen were welcomed over the border in Catalonia by a brass band and flower girls. Then they proceeded to Barcelona, accompanied by Pablo Merry...
Blocked Profits. Ebro is the principal source of electricity for Spain's chief industrial region, the whole of Catalonia and the Ebro valley where the Spanish Loyalists made one of their last great stands. Since 1910, Ebro had dutifully paid out profits to its owner, the Canadian-incorporated Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SIDRO, in turn a subsidiary of Dannie Heineman's Sofina...
...tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, is not of French nationality as reported [TIME, Dec. 31]. Fenosa is a Catalan, born at Sant Marti de Provençals, near Barcelona, in 1899. . . . When Fenosa was 20 years old [he] went to Paris. He returned to his native Catalonia in 1931. He was awarded several first prizes in sculpture by the Catalan Government. His best known works are Maternity and The Three Graces, of which there is a copy in New York and one in Philadelphia. After the fall of Catalonia to Franco's fascist hordes, Fenosa returned to France...
...best Axis tradition, Spain also posted a death list of names prominent in pre-Franco Spain. Ubiquitous, little Luis Companýs, Catalan journalist, lawyer, patriot, who was acclaimed President of Catalonia in 1936, was discovered in Nantes by the Gestapo, garroted in Spain on orders from Franco...
...Republican leaders stayed to face the music. He was 70-year-old Julian Bestiero, who handed Madrid over to Franco and got a 30-year prison term for his courage. In France are ex-Presidents Niceto Alcalá Zamora and Manuel Azaña, ex-President Luis Companys of Catalonia, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Generals Juan Sarabia and José Asensio, many others. Premier Juan Negrin and Foreign Minister Julian Alvárez del Vayo are in Mexico, as are some 6,000 of the more Leftist Republican supporters. Madrid's Savior, General José Miaja, is also...