Word: teruel
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...been axiomatic in this war that nothing can be learned with certainty unless one goes to the spot and sees with his own eyes." So last week wrote the only reporter yet to write a story from within the walls of Teruel, softspoken, impeccably groomed Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times. Following Leftist mopping-up squads right into the ruins of the Civil Government Building, he saw plenty...
...many other points about this greatest battle of the war. Because Rightist planes won and kept control of the air throughout the battle, there had been no reports to contradict Franco's claims and for a week the press had been misled into believing that most of Teruel had been retaken by his troops. Actually, through the ten bloody days it lasted, the Rightist counteroffensive never touched Teruel itself, got no closer than four miles from the city. Evidence from other sources indicates that the three U. S. and British correspondents with Franco's army killed by shell...
...Before the war, little Teruel was known chiefly as the home of Spain's Romeo & Juliet, the lovers Juan de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura who died of grief in the 13th Century, whose remains were put on view in the Church of San Pedro; there they remained last week still undamaged by shell fire. Most famed drama on their tragedy is Los Amantes de Teruel, by the Spanish son of a German cabinetmaker, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch...
...follow the fortunes of Spain's war is to note on which side correspondents are allowed near the front, for neither Rightists nor Leftists like to let the press come near when they are losing. But last week's end Rightist chances in the Battle of Teruel were bright enough for them to allow five carloads of correspondents to approach the firing line...
...press cars reached the little village of Caude, five miles northwest of Teruel, they stopped for one which had lagged behind. Cigarets were lit. From one of the cars a young man ran forward to give his friends in a car ahead a bar of chocolate...