Santander, 247n.
fall of, 410
Saragossa, 113, 132, 348, 358
military rising, 72, 106 and n., 121
objective of CNT militias, and importance
of to CNT, 119–21
libertarian strength in, 121
insurgents withdraw to, 132
access barred, 133
and Durruti column, 119–21 passim, 133,
Segovia, 166
air raids, 167, 175n.
Serrano Suñer, Ramón, 316n., 317, 318, 319, 416, 471
secretary general of FET, 317n.
motion to exclude from leadership posts, 469–70
Servicio de Investigación Militar (SIM), 444 and n., 459
Seven Seas Spray (British merchant vessel), 398, 411
Seville, 129, 155, 158, 161, 175, 259, 271–2, 275–6, 277, 278, 307
and Sanjurjo rising, 568n.
military rising, 49–50, 51–2, 72, 106 and n.
end of resistance, 108
inter-union assassinations, 99
air lift, 108
executions, 159–60
Sindicato Español Universitario (SEU), 103
members’ assassinations, 59
Socialist party, see Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)
Socialists, and syndicalism, 239
Socorro Blanco (White Aid), 474, 476
Socorro Rojo (Red Aid), 164, 487
Soldado Rojo (Red Soldier), 76
origin of, 569
Solidaridad Obrero (CNT), 47, 60, 82, 90, 105, 107, 136, 146, 344
Solidaridad de Trabajadores Vascos (STV), 192, 194, 540
and October 1934, 538n.
‘communitarianism’, 540
Soldiers’ and Corporals’ Organization:
work of, 569–70
increase in strength of, 571
Somosierra, 122
pass captured, 126
Sota, Ramón de la, 539n.
Sotrondio (Asturias), 242, 422–3, 425, 426
Souchy, A., 217n., 358n., 369n.
Southworth, H., 401n.
Soviet Union, 191, 325
and Non-Intervention, 127
food shipments, 145
military aid, 202, 230, 259 and n., 262, 266, 270, 337; held up in France, 328, 482–3
and PCE, 297, 326, 329, 331 and n., 332, 346
alliance with bourgeois democracies, 327, 329, 562, 563
and Spanish democratic revolution, 563
‘hatred of’, 332
‘desire to be rid of’, 334
and show trials, 334, 384
and La Batalla, 374
and Nin, 386
evacuees, 434
education in, 435–6
military advisers, 462–3
Stalin, J., 291n., 334, 373, 384
letter to Largo Caballero, 321, 327 and n., 330n.
advises use of guerrillas, 330n.
and aid, 329
proletarian revolution, 329
posters of, 456
Supplies committee (Barcelona):
creation of, 143
abolishes money, 144
and barter system, 144
exchanges worth 60 million pesetas, 145
and Soviet Union, 145, 375
suppressed by Comorera, 375
Syndicalist party:
foundation of, 547
Tagüeña, M., 486n., 489, 492n.
Talavera (Toledo), 257
Tamames, R., 279n., 510n., 564n, 566n.
Tamariz de Campos (Valladolid), 86, 88n., 168–9
Tangier, 108n.
Tarradellas, Josep, 142, 145, 146, 209, 577
Tarragona, 227, 228, 376
Taya, R., 394n.
Teruel, 119
Popular Army’s capture of, 440, 469, 480
recaptured by nationalists, 441
bishop of, 464–5; his assassination, 465n.
Tetuán (Spanish Morocco), 48
Thomas, H., 42, 43n., 148n., 370n., 404n., 475n., 483n., 486n., 488n., 566n., 570n., 573n., 574 and n.
Togliatti, Palmiro (‘Ercoli’), 441, 491–2
Toledo, 117, 174, 203, 256, 257, 515, 582
relief of, 200, 201
Alcázar, 201
criticisms of relief, 202
Tomás, Belarmino, 422, 423, 556
Tortosa (Tarragona), 120, 121
Tovey, Adm. J., 504 and n., 505
Treball (PSUC), 107, 182
Treintistas, 180, 215, 545, 547, 551, 559n.
Trotsky, L., 346, 386, 388, 562
Trubia, 253
Trueba, Manuel, 134
Trueta, Prof. J., 442n.
Tuñon de Lara, M., 40n., 44n.
Tusell, J., 44n.
Unamuno, Miguel de, 168, 205–9
welcomes rising, 205
angered by repression, 205
sacked by Madrid government, 205
military hatred of Catalonia and Basque country, 205
and public protest, 205–9
help for protestant clergyman, 206
protest about repression to Franco, 208
dismissed by nationalists, 208
death, 208
and falangists, 208
holds Falange responsible for repression, 208
new state ‘a stupid regime of terror’, 208
Unified Socialist Youth, see Juventudes Socialistas Unificades
Unió Democrática, 153
Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), 194, 231
tolerated by Gen. Primo de Rivera, 39
pre-war conflict with CNT, 75
strength of, 182, 557
and communist CGTU, 559n.
and banking system, 180
in Catalonia, 182
workers’ and soldiers’ committees, 184
and collectivization, 213n., 234, 578–80
in Asturias: pact with CNT, 237, 244, 330n., 550, 553; expropriates chemists, 244n.; ‘unwilling to threaten alliance with CNT’, 245n.
in Madrid: garment workers’ collectives, 290, 291; ‘shop-floor unity with CNT’, 296
non-members’ views: new membership of, 152, 182
Unión Militar Española (UME), 103
composition of, 569
strength of, 572
Unión Militar de Republicanos Antifascistas (UMRA):
Calvo Sotelo’s assassination, 103
and warning of, 572
strength of, 572
United States, ‘non-involvement’, 127
Uribe, Vicente, 193
agricultural cooperatives, 326n.
and agrarian reform decree, 347
collectives decree, 373
Urquiaga, Esteban de, 413
Urrutia, Gen. Gustavo, 467
Valencia, 284, 296
military rising, 72, 106
population of, 523
Valera Valverde, Eduardo, 306–7
as civil governor of Córdoba, 306–7, 308
Valladolid, 85, 118, 166, 310
military rising, 55, 72
garrison ‘indifferent to rising’, 86
birthplace of JONS, 86
air raids, 167, 175n.
Vatican:
recognizes nationalist regime, 415
supports CEDA, 525n.
Vázquez, Mariano (‘Marianet’) Rodriguez, 142, 143, 364–6, 451
Vidal i Barraquer, Cardinal, 153, 529
Vidali, Vittorio (‘Carlos Contreras’), 257n.
Vilanova, M., 534n.
Vilar, P., 36, 37n., 38n.
Viñas, A., 126n., 314n.
Vitoria, 57n.
Vivancos, Major Miguel García, 289, 440, 548n.
and CNT national committee, 289
Vizcaya (see also Basque country), 190
revolution in, 193–5 passim
refugees, 402
production in after Franco victory, 409
War and Revolution, 236
Largo Caballero ‘war before revolution’, 185–6
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in Asturias, 245
people’s war, 330 and n.
neglect of rearguard, 331n.; and consequences, 332
demoralization in, 337
revolutionary war, 345–6, 500, 501
in Vizcaya, 396, 404
Catalan petty bourgeoisie, 443–4, 445
libertarian views on: 224, 242, 322, 335–7, 338; JSU, 322, 332, 495, 496; PSOE members, 321; PCE–PSUC members, 321, 322, 323–31 passim, 370, 579; POUM members, 321, 339, 344; Soviet view, 321
Whealey, R., 279n., 410n.
Willis, L., 287n.
Workers’ Alliance, 555
creation of, 554, 559n.
Xavier Bourbonne-Parme, Prince, 104n., 317
Yague, Col. Juan, 202–3
attacks Germans, praises republicans, 471
Zugazagoitia, Julián, 285n., 402n.
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