1932/06/20: Without her industrial Catalonia and her thriving Basque country Spain would be like the U. S. without the North Atlantic seaboard and California. Yet last week the Republican Government at Madrid signed away most of its control over Catalonia which ...
1366/01/01: Arrival of first banners of the army sent by France to the aid of Peter III [of Barcelona, IV of Aragon] del Punyalet ["of the little dagger"] and Enrique de Trastamara, under command of Juan de Bourbon. There were 30,000 soldiers and one of their pr...
1937/07/27: 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 Comp...
1926/11/15: Plot, pounce
The vivid staccato name of Garibaldi is synonymous with revolution and romance.* Last week it seemed that a new Garibaldi, a grandson of the Liberator, had arisen to wade in glory. He is Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, Italian World War ...
1937/04/12: 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 S...