Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main Loyalist job in the closing hours of the retreat from Catalonia was to get as much war supplies as possible into France and out of General Franco's hands. Tanks and heavy artillery pieces rumbled over the frontier in endless lines. At Le Perthus alone more than 10,000 trucks rolled into France between midnight and noon of the last day. Overhead roared squadrons of Loyalist airplanes, headed for landing fields in the interior of France. Many of the troops found their own way of disposing of small arms. They shot their cartridges away at birds...
...possible terms out of Generalissimo Franco or until international developments-i.e., war or the threat of war between Italy and France-turn the tide in favor of Loyalist Spain, announced his intention to go to Madrid and continue the struggle. Again France indulged in a friendly gesture to General Franco and informed Premier Negrin that no special plane would be allowed to remove him from French soil. Again the Premier found a way out. With his Foreign Minister, Julio Alvarez del Vayo, he quietly journeyed to Toulouse, boarded an Air France plane for Madrid. It was a dangerous solution...
Back in Madrid, the Loyalists' first capital,* the Premier called what remains of his cabinet together, proclaimed Madrid the capital once more of the Loyalist Government. With weatherbeaten old General Miaja as Generalissimo and commander-in-chief of all of central Spain, the Premier drafted a proclamation calling for "a compact, heroic national front" to make a last-ditch stand in the Madrid area. "Our fate is at stake and it depends entirely upon ourselves to come out successfully from the present situation through our own will power and determination. Either we shall all save ourselves or sink ourselves...
...will take some weeks before General Franco can rest and reorganize his forces and replenish his supplies for a big drive on central Loyalist Spain but last week the Rebel commanders began giving Madrid a bloody foretaste of the fight to come. The big guns outside Madrid, fired only sporadically for a year, opened up in earnest and plumped their shells into the city. Twenty-four were killed and 64 wounded in one day's barrage. Rebel bombers this week also resumed heavy attacks on Valencia and Alicante, two of the three main ports remaining in Loyalist hands...
...back in the early days of NRA, brash General Hugh Samuel Johnson used to settle labor difficulties by locking the employes' representatives in one room, employers in another, himself shuttling back and forth. If such could be called Round Table Conferences, then a Round Table Conference was held in London last week-on the Palestine question...