Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting each other, Spain last week had three. Army No. 1, biggest and strongest, was that of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who now holds three-fourths of Spain. Army No. 2 was commanded by famed old General José Miaja, president of the Madrid junta which last week ousted the Loyalist Government of Premier Negrin. Army No. 3 consisted of Communist "rebels" of the old Loyalist Army which revolted against the Miaja junta. The men of Armies No. 2 and 3, fortnight ago buddies in the same trenches, promptly went at each other's throats while the Franco forces fired...
...Loyalist Spain's bitterly fought "war-within-a-war" centred in Madrid and for it General Franco's troops in the nearby trenches had grandstand seats. One of the hardest-fought engagements between the Loyalist factions took place near the old Royal Palace, in West Madrid on the high bank of the Manzanares River within plain view of some ten miles of Franco entrenchments. The Communist stronghold was in the partly completed Government buildings on the old race-track course in northeastern Madrid, less than two miles from the Franco trenches in University City. At one time...
...very high, seemed likely to be mistaken. The "rebel" forces had been cleared out of the centre of Madrid, but they were still said to be holding important outskirts with 30,000 men. Furthermore, aid to them was on its way from other fronts. The chances were that the Loyalist forces, within plain view of their common enemies, would fight each other until the Franco Army, last week more a spectator than a fighting force, stepped in and cleaned them...
...Spanish War on the sea, only occasionally an active phase of the fighting, ended abruptly last week when the major part of the Loyalist fleet steamed into the neutral French port of Bizerte, Tunisia, and was interned. In parade formation, still flying the Spanish Republic's red, gold & purple flag, three cruisers, eight destroyers and a number of lesser ships sailed in from revolt-ridden Cartagena, the fleet's base, 600 miles across the Mediterranean. Met by the French cruiser Dupleix and a squadron of French destroyers, the ships were inspected for sanitation, then, their ammunition removed, allowed...
...methods of slander, kidnapping, murder, and frame-up trials. You all know of the Moscow confession trials. . . . Perhaps you know of the slander campaign against John Dewey and other liberal and radical figures for their participation on the Committee for the Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists on the charge of being "paid agents of Franco." Such men as Ignazio Silone, John Dos Passos, and James Farrell; to mention a few, protest this. Several...