Historia de Barcelona

Categoría: Toledo Blade

  • El colaboracionista nazi, Pierre Laval, «tejiendo suéteres en la cárcel Montjuic para calmarse»

    Worried Laval Knits Woolies To Quiet Nerves

    LONDON, July 24 (UP). A Madrid dispatch to the Evening Standard said today that Pierre Laval, morbid and depressed, sits every day in the Mediterranean sunshine knitting winter woolies to quiet his nerves.

    Laval, former Vichy Chief of Government, fled to Barcelona in the last days of the European war. The dispatch said the stalemate over his status might be broken soon when Spain’s reorganized cabinet settles down to work.

    «It is believed that the new foreign minister may induce Laval to give himself up to France,» it said.

  • Reacción al asesinato por ETA de Miguel Ángel Blanco

    Millions protest Basque killing

    Spaniards honor slain councilman

    Madrid (AP) – More than 2 million Spaniards marched in Madrid and Barcelona … to protest the killing of a young politician by Basque separatists, hours after his hometown paid an emotional tribute at his burial.
    Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar led a mass of people stretching nearly two miles to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square, where the regional government building was draped in a three-story-high black ribbon.

    The protest, in which Mr. Aznar was accompanied by all three former prime ministers of Spain’s 20-year-old democracy, was believed to be the largest since Spaniards marched to protest a military coup try in 1981.
    Madrid police said more than 1.5 million people joined the march. Another 1 million marched in Barcelona, police there reported.

    Many waved photographs of Miguel Angel Blanco, a 29-year-old councilman from the Basque town of Ermua kidnapped by the Basque separatist group ETA on Thursday and shot and fatally wounded two days later.