History of Barcelona

25 December 1937

Feia més dun any que la guerra durava. Cada dia que passava les privacions eren més grans, i la fe de molts trontollava. Havíem ja vist caure i desaparèixer a tants dels nostres millors! Per acabar-ho d'adobar, els diaris i les ràdios d'aquells dies anaven plens de la batalla de Terol, que es desenrotllava sota uns elements completament desfavorables. El fred i les nevades més terribles s'havien ensenyorit d'aquells paratges erms, i la lluita era ferotge, apocalíptica... Els diaris par...

8 November 1937

Meanwhile, for the first time in modern history, a Spanish Government moved to Barcelona, the second move of the Leftist Government since the war started. Plenty of government bureaus remained in overcrowded Valencia. Signaling the move, Minister of the Interior Julian Zugazagoita made a radio speech containing two statements, neither of which would have been possible year ago when the Leftist Government first moved to Valencia: "The Government planned to go to Barcelona as early as last Nov...

27 July 1937

Catalonian anarchists supporting the Leftist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin asked leave to stage anti-Fascist rallies and parades on the first birthday of Spain's civil war last week, but were sternly repressed. Catalonia's President Luis Companys cared to risk no street riots among his Communist, Anarchist, Socialist and Republican supporters, and anyhow Leftist Spain was grimly straining every resource in its first large offensive of the war.

24 May 1937

The entire effectiveness of the Leftist Government has been in the series of compromises making it possible for a mixed salad of political parties to work in some sort of harmony. Immediately behind last week's Cabinet crisis was the brief Anarchist revolt in Barcelona of fortnight ago (TIME. May 17). Premier Largo Caballero and President Luis Companys of Catalonia are both secretly determined to put the Anarchists, most hot-headed of Leftist groups, in their places, but the Anarchists are polit...

17 May 1937

The Spanish spotlight, focused for the past month on the Basque capital at Bilbao, swung last week to Barcelona, greatest industrial city in Spain and chief port remaining in Leftist hands.

12 April 1937

That no simple civil war of two Spains, Leftists and Rightists, is being fought, made itself clear again last week as some other Spains became active afresh, notably the Basques and the Catalonians. These regions are violently separatist, even when Spain is at peace. The fact that today Catalonians and Basques are both classed as being with the Leftists of Valencia and Madrid makes them no less rugged individualists. In Barcelona, the capital of more or less autonomous Catalonia (through whi...


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