1960/02/13: While home ported in Barcelona I befriended a young deaf Spanish boy. His family owned a restaurant and we all became friends. The young boy made me a paper ship which I treasure to this day. His father wrote on the side of the paper ship "Barcelona ...
1909/07/31: APOLOGY FOR BARCELONA.; Interested In Industry, the People Object to Fighting.
HENRY DALMASES.
July 31, 1909, Saturday
I notice in your dispatches of to-day in regard to the Spanish situation that the disturbances in Barcelona and other Spanis...
1936/03/02: What began last fortnight as Spain's least bloody election in years was swelling last week into horrid crescendos of threatened social upheaval, secession and civil war. Overnight 30,000 political prisoners came bustling out of jail. They included th...
1939/01/25: A lieutenant said to his captain that he needed to get to the city which could be discerned at the foot of Tibidabo, where his regiment was. Why? Because his mother was there, and he wanted to see her after three years of absence caused by the war. H...
1909/07/29: BARCELONA RUNS WITH BLOOD.; Fighting Continues and Reinforcements Are Blocked by Strikers.
PARIS, July 29. -- Spanish couriers from Barcelona arriving at Cerbere on the frontier report that artillery is battering the barricades, behind which the i...
