Word: varela
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...Pobo Mountain front, just northeast of Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
...siege of Madrid, on the day Burgos was recognized last week, had been proceeding for 20 days and was directly in command not of the Generalissimo but of General Jose Varela, the man who went to the rescue of Toledo and lifted the famed siege of the Alcazar (TIME, Sept. 28). Last week Generalissimo & President Franco was in Salamanca when news of the Italo-German recognition came and with him rejoiced Spain's No. 1 Philosopher, famed Miguel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca. With the whole city celebrating, anyone who looked like an Italian...
...main force of the White Army under General Jose Varela was fighting on the bank of the Manzanares River which flows through Madrid's western and southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines...
...question by pacific means. . . . I am confident that your deliberations here will furnish further encouragement . . . for the principle of the pacific settlement of disputes among nations." Thereupon the two delegations, presided over by Ecuador's Dr. Homero Viteri Lafronte and by Peru's Dr. Francisco Tudela y Varela, retired to deliberate, knowing that if they would not agree they were pledged to acknowledge President Roosevelt as arbiter...
...tocsins: "Death to the Unitarian Savages! Long Live the Holy Federation!" A few wags cheered "El Torito de Matadoros," champion Argentine Boxer Justo Suarez, now attached to the Argentine consulate in Manhattan. Five anti-Irigoyenistas ploughed through the crowd, fired a score of shots which brought down Parader Manuel Varela. At week's end no other signs of revolution were evident. President Irigoyen was furious to learn that by order of the Minister of War General Luis J. Dellepiane, a number of officers had been arrested, confined to barracks for no other reason than that they were known...