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REBELS DRIVE TO BARCELONA (1/25/39)
Microfiche-New York Times archives | 1/25/39 | William P. Carney

Posted on 01/25/2009 6:41:06 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

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1 posted on 01/25/2009 6:41:06 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

The communists in Spain were destined to lose big time to Franco’s fascists. Not good for the common man.


2 posted on 01/25/2009 6:50:25 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: fredhead; r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; ...
Here is another installment of one of the less popular continuing stories on these threads (along with the war in China). I wonder if the civil war sold many papers in 1938-39 or did the Times just give it such extensive coverage for political purposes. It seems from the sidebar stories that there was great popular sentiment in the U.S. on the side of the Spanish government. I wonder if that is true.

I'll bet developments in Poland will begin to generate some interest here:

"[O]n January 25 Ribbentrop was at Warsaw to continue the diplomatic offensive against Poland. The absorption of Czechoslovakia was to be followed by the encirclement of Poland. The first stage in this operation would be the cutting off of Poland from the sea by the assertion of German sovereignty in Danzig and by the prolongation of the German control of the Baltic to the vital Lithuanian port of Memel. The Polish Government displayed strong resistance to this pressure, and for a while Hitler watched and waited for the campaigning season."

Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, p. 306

3 posted on 01/25/2009 6:55:49 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The communists in Spain were destined to lose big time to Franco’s fascists. Not good for the common man.

Better that they had taken over right then and gotten a 60+ year lead on screwing everyone over.
4 posted on 01/25/2009 6:56:27 AM PST by aruanan
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Yes, the probably were better off in the long run, but it was an ugly civil war with many atrocities.


5 posted on 01/25/2009 7:01:13 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Franco was a hero. Don’t believe the liberals. Spain would have turned into a commie hell hole like North Korea.


6 posted on 01/25/2009 7:53:10 AM PST by MattinNJ (Palin or Sanford in 2012)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Looks like the usual liberal denominations coming out in support of the Communists.


7 posted on 01/25/2009 7:54:16 AM PST by PAR35
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Not good for the common man.

You forgot the sacasm tag.

8 posted on 01/25/2009 7:55:33 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I’ve been biding my time waiting for the news of Poland. We know it well and I am very interested in what was being said in the U.S. at that time. From 1939 to the Warsaw uprising in 44. Of course that means you’ll have to post these for the next 5 years. :-)


9 posted on 01/25/2009 3:34:47 PM PST by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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Of course that means you’ll have to post these for the next 5 years.

I won't stop posting 'til it's over over there.

10 posted on 01/25/2009 6:23:52 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I find it interesting. And the war on China is particualrly interesting since all the things taking place now are setting a stage for what most here will find extremely interesting.

Reading this article shows that the Loyalists are truely in the death throws of their fight. Once Bacelona falls that will eliminate any access to sea ports and any potential supplies, and they are hemmed in on land. I suppose the only saving grace here is that in the end the Spanish and Franco will not be as accomodating to Hitler as he could have been.


11 posted on 01/25/2009 9:04:50 PM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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