The battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (98 page)

Allen, Jay

Allison-Peers, Professor E.

Almería

Almirante Cervera
(nationalist cruiser)

Almirante Fernández
(republican destroyer)

Almirante Valdés
(republican destroyer)

Alonso, Bruno

Alonso, Colonel Martín

Alonso Vega, Colonel (later General) Camilo

Alto de los Leones

Álvarez Arenas, General Eliseo

Álvarez del Vayo, Julio, foreign minister, commissar- general, conflict with Largo, Caballero, controls censorship, protests to League of Nations, replaced, considers negotiation impossible, leaves Spain

Álvarez, Jesús

Amadeo of Savoy

Amado, Andrés,(minister of finance, American volunteers, mutiny

Amposta

anarchism

Andalucia, agriculture, anarchism,
latifundia
, general strike, disturbances, support for Carlists, military rising, political killings, commerce, under nationalist control, peasants, guerrilla operations, front, ‘white terror, stronghold of
señoritos
, development of trade

Andersson, Conny

Andradé, Benigno

Andújar

Anger, Karl

Annual, battle of (1921)

Anschluss

anti-clericalism

Antifascist Women’s Committee

Antón, Francisco

Antona, David

Antonov-Ovseyenko, Vladimir

Aragón, military rising, nationalists hold, clergy in, self- government, industry and agriculture, Council of, militias, political groupings, front, relations with republican government, offensives, destruction of collectives, guerrilla warfare

Aragon, Louis

Aranda Mata, Colonel (later General, secures Oviedo, on northern front, and battle of Teruel, and Aragón offensive, and advance on Valencia, and Franco regime

Aranjuez

Araquistaín Quevedo, Luis

Arenys de Mar

Ares del Maestre

Arganda

Argèles-sur-Mer

Argelia

Argentina

Arias Navarro, Carlos

Arleguí y Bayonés, General Miguel

Arles-sur-Tech

Arman, Captain Pavel

arms supplies, to nationalists, to republicans to Basque country

Army of Africa
africanistas
and mentality units transported to mainland strength advance in south-west contribution to nationalist victory advance on Madrid professionalism and effectiveness and Franco’s rise to power

Arquer, Jordi

Artesa de Segre

Ascanio, Major Guillermo

Ascaso, Domingo

Ascaso, Francisco

Ascaso, Joaquín

Ascó

Asensio Cabanillas, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Carlos, and attack on Madrid, and Jarama offensive, and Brunete offensive

Asensio Torrado, General

Assault Guard (
asaltos
) role in
coup dďétat
purged communist influence, in Basque country, in Catalonia

Asturias, general strike, 1934 rebellion under republicans military zone, Council of, fall of, guerrilla warfare, offensive arms factories

ateneos libertarios

Atholl, Katherine, Duchess of

atrocities, religious, republican, nationalist, corpses displayed, statistics, reporting of, by SIM

Aub, Max

Auden, W. H.

Auriol, Vincent

Auschwitz (concentration camp)

Austria

Auxilio Social

Aviazione Legionaria,
see
Legionary Air Force

Avila

Avilés

Azañ y Díaz, Manuel, heads republican party, minister of war, confrontation with Church, in government, imprisoned, president, saves monks, and Miaja’s communism, and defence of Bilboa, conversations monitored, and republican power struggle, and killing of Nin, pessimism and realism, protests to League of Nations, ‘unforgettable’ meeting with Negrín, bids farewell to International Brigades, crosses into France, resigns, and coup against Negrín, death

Azarola y Gresillón, Rear-Admiral

Antonio

Azcárete y Florez, Pablo de

Aznar, Admiral Juan Bautista

Badajoz, province of, massacre, guerrilla operations

Badalona

Badía, Josep

Badía, Miguel

Bahamonde y Sánchez de Castro, Antonio

Bailby, Léon

Bailén

Balaguer

Baldwin, Stanley, (later Earl)

Baleares
(nationalist cruiser)

Balearic Islands

Banco de Españ

Banco de Vizcaya

Banco Nacional Agrario

banks, merchant, under Franco

Banque Commerciale pour l’Europe du Nord

Baquer, General Alonso

Baráibar, Carlos de

Barajas airfield

Barbastro

Barbieri, Franco

Barceló Jover, Major Luis

Barcelona,
fin de siècle
, Semana, Trágica (1909), disturbances, provisional government declared, military rising parliament reopened, assassinations, People’s Olympiad, political killings, under republicans, respect for buildings, hotels, deteriorating atmosphere and events of May (1937) German consulate anarchist strength, Soviet representation in, Azaña arrives, Durruti’s funeral, bombing of journalists, middle classes, prisons, newspapers, NKVD in,republican government in, Basque government in, spy network, reservoirs and power supplies, food shortages, demonstration against defeatism, Franco’s ambivalence over, fall of bridges, military parade, farewell parade for International Brigades, flight from city, fifth column miraculous Christ of Lepanto guerrilla operations

Barletta
(Italian battleship)

Barrio, José del

Barrón y Ortiz, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Fernando, and Jarama offensive, and Guadarrama offensive, and Brunete offensive, and Aragón offensive, and battle of Ebro and peace negotiations

Barroso, Colonel Antonio

Basque army,
see
Euzko Godarostea

Basque country, Catholicism nationalism, autonomy, military rising, republicans hold, clergy shot, Church left untouched, separatism, flag, ambivalence towards Republic, nationalist advances in, military zone, independent army established, campaign in, class divisions, industry, treatment of prisoners, naval actions, relations with Valencia government, continuing war with Franco regime, government in Barcelona, arms factories

Basque language

Basque Nationalist Party,
see
PNV Bastico, General Ettore

Batet Mestres, General Domingo

battle shock

Bautista Sánchez, Colonel (later General)

Juan

Bayo Girón, Alberto

Beckett, Samuel

Behn, Sosthenes

Beigbeder, Colonel

Beimler, Hans

Belchite, battle of

Bell, Julian

Belloc, Hilaire

Ben Mizzian, Major Mohamed

Beorleguí y Canet, Major Alfonso

Berenguer Fusté, General Dámaso

Bergamin, José

Bergonzoli, General Annibale

Beria, Lavrenti

Berlin, axis with Rome, Red Army in, reports to, Largo Caballero interrogated

Bernal García, General Carlos

Bernanos, Georges

Berneri, Camillo

Berti, General Mario

Berzin, General Jan (‘Grishin’)

Besteiro, Julián, presides over Cortes, warnings against civil war, visits London, opposition to Negrín government, death

Bevin, Ernest

Bianco, Vincenzo (‘Krieger’)

Bilbao, general strike disturbances, military rising, threatened by nationalists, defence of, republican navy in, blockade of, nationalists reluctant to bomb, evacuation, nationalists enter, under Franco

Bilbao, Ángel Crescenciano

Bilbao, Tomás

Biscay, Bay of

Bismarck, Prince Otto von

Bizkaya
(trawler)

Blanco, Segundo

Blomberg, General Werner von

Blue Division (División Azul)

Blum, Léon

Boadilla del Monte

Bocheau, Pierre

Bodosakis-Athanasiades, Prodromos

Bolín, Luis, and international support for nationalists, and Franco’s rise to power, propaganda efforts

Borbón-Parma, Prince Javier de

Bordighera

Borjas Blancas

Borkenau, Franz

Bosch Gimpera, Pere

Bowers, Claude

Bram

Bramhill
(ship)

Brasillach, Robert

Brecht, Bertolt

Brenan, Gerald

Breton, André

Brigada Aérea Hispana

Brigada Social

Brihuega, battle of, (see Guadalajara, battle of)

Britain, role in Spanish Civil War, fear of communism, Abdication crisis, prejudices, naval power, Stalin and, and International Brigades, fear of air attacks, reluctance to take sides, perceptions of Spanish Civil War, foreign policy, shifting sympathies, failure to halt air raids, failure to assist Catalans, treaty with Italy, puts pressure on nationalists, recognizes Franco regime, ignores requests for evacuation, restricts immigration, planned German invasion

British Communist Party

British Union of Fascists

British volunteers

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Broz, Josip (‘Tito’)

Brunete, battle of losses at, propaganda about, mistakes at

Buchenwald (concentration camp)

Buckley, Henry

Buiza, Admiral Miguel

Bujaraloz

Bulgarian volunteers

Buñuel, Luis

Burgos prison riots, military rising, political killings, Franco government in, under Franco, march pasts

Burgos, Archbishop of

Burgos Law of Political Responsibilities

Burguete, General Ricardo

caballeristas
, (supporters of Largo Caballero)

Cabanellas Ferrer, General Miguel, and Franco’s rise to power

Cabello, Cándido

Cabeza Grande, defence of

Cáceres, province of, guerrilla operations

Cádiz, Constitution of, province of, military rising, army landings, German, naval base

Calder, Alexander

Calvo Sotelo, José assassinated, as finance minister, admired by Eden, propaganda about

Camacho Benítez, Colonel Antonio

Cambó, Francesc

Camp Lukács, (International Brigade punishment camp)

Campbell, Roy

Campeche
(ship)

Campilo
(ship)

Campins Aura, General Miguel

Campos Guereta, Colonel Luis

Canadian volunteers

Canarias
(nationalist cruiser)

Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm

Canary Islands

Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio

Capa, Robert

Capdevielle, Juana

Carabanchel