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 détat 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
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 governme
nt 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
carabineros
Cárdenas, Juan
Cárdenas, President Lázaro
Cardozo, Harold
Carlists (requetés), nineteenth-century revolts, begin military training, involvement in coupétat, barbarity, political killings, treatment of prisoners of war, politics, role in civil war, authoritarian values, and Franco’s rise to power, in attack on Madrid, military value and populist base, in Jarama offensive, fanatical chaplains, Navarrese brigades in nationalist power struggle, tercio of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat, at battle of Teruel, in Aragón offensive, under Franco, in battle of Catalonia, and Franco regime, religious convictions
Carls, Admiral Rolf
Carrasco Amilibia, Colonel León
Carrillo, Santiago
Carrillo, Wenceslao
Cartagena, prison riots, republican naval base, gold reserves shipped from, bombed, republican fleet leaves
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Casablanca
Casado López, Lieutenant-Colonel César
Casado López, Lieutenant-Colonel Segismundo, and battle of Brunete, denied knowledge of airfields, opposition to Negrín government, promoted, negotiations leaves Spain
Casares Quiroga, Santiago resigns as prime minister
Casares, Maria
casas del pueblo
Casas Viejas
Cascajo Ruiz, Colonel Ciriaco
Caspe
Castejón, Major Antonio and attack on Madrid
Castellón de la Plana
Castilblanco
Castilla del Pino, Professor Carlos
Castillo de Olite (ship)
Castillo Sería, Lieutenant José
Castor Ibáñez, Lieutenant-Commander
Castro, Enrique
Castro, Fidel
Castro Delgado, Enrique
Castro Veiga, José
Catalonia, agriculture, industry and economy, anarchism, nationalism, autonomy and statute, Generalitat, general strike, clergy in, Central Committee of, Anti-Fascist Militias, political killings, self-government, militia system, political groupings, independent army established, relations with republican government, separatism, and republican power struggle, judicial system, press, divided from rest of Spain, defeatism, integrated into Spanish state, suspected French designs on, republicans rearm, battle for and fall, guerrilla operations
Catholic Church, under, Second Republic, and education, identified with Spain, finances, Falange and, target for republicans, and political killings, nationalists and, and Franco’s rise to power, leaders, backing for Franco, and bombing of Guernica, social doctrine, under Franco, censorship, Carlists and
Catholicism
Caudé, wells of
Caudwell, Christopher
Cayatte, André
Cazorla, José
CEDA, (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas
censorship
Centaño, Lieutenant-Colonel José
Cerro de los Angeles
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Cervera
Ceuta
Chalmers-Mitchell, Sir Peter
Chamberlain, Lady
Chamberlain, Neville, friendliness towards Franco, as prime minister, misleads Commons
Chapaprieta, Joaquin
Chatfield, Admiral Lord
Chautemps, Camille
Checa, Pedro
checas
Chetwode, Sir Philip
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chicago Tribune
Chile
Chilton, Sir Henry
China
Chinese volunteers
Churchill, Winston
Churruca (destroyer)
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, notes British friendliness to Mussolini, delight in bombing raids, signs pact with, Britain, anger with nationalists, and Negrín’s negotiations, fears European war, and fall of, Catalonia, proclaims fascist victory
Cicognani, Cardinal Gaetano
Ciempozuelos
Císcar (republican destroyer)
Cisneros, Cardinal Ximénez
Ciudad de Barcelona (ship)
Ciudad Real province of
Ciutat, Major Francisco
Civil Guard, (Guardia Civil, Sanjurjo’s power base, brutality, Popular Front and, role in coupétat, role in civil war, barracks, purged, in Madrid, disbanded in Basque country, intervene in Salamanca, come out of hiding, anti-guerrilla operations
Claridad (socialist newspaper)
Claudel, Paul
CNT, (Confederación Nacional de Trabajo), membership, strikes, under Second Republic, and defence of Republic, increased strength, Barcelona conference, in Catalonia, women and, flag, and socialized industries, and militias, and Largo, Caballero government, foreign volunteers and, and defence of Madrid, arrest government ministers, in Málaga, war fund, at battle of Guadalajara, in Basque Country, and Stalin’s purges, and republican power struggle, and ‘events of May’, collectives destroyed, rift between leadership and membership, defence of El Mazuco pass, in Aragón, demonstrate against defeatism, concessions to government, leaders meet in Paris, joins anti-fascist front
CNT-FAI
Codó
Codovilla, Vittorio
Cold War
collectives, destroyed in Aragón
Collioure
Comintern, agents and advisers, and Largo Caballero government, role in Spanish Civil War, and formation of International Brigades, ambitions for republican Spain, and republican power struggle
Comité des Forges
commissars
Communist Youth (Juventud Socialista Unificada)
Comorera, Joan, and ‘events of May’
Companys, Lluís, proclaims Catalan state, political realism, complaints against government, and ‘events of May’, sidelined, bids farewell to International Brigades, and fall of Catalonia, in France, executed
Condés, Captain Fernando
Condor Legion, trains militia, in Málaga campaign, receives Messerschmitt and Jarama offensive, in Basque campaign, develops tactics, and Brunete offensive, on northern front, upgrades aircraft, in Gudalajara offensive and battle of Teruel, Gruppe Droehne, reinforced, attacks Italians, withdrawn from fighting, and battle of Ebro, guarantees Franco victory, hands over to Spanish pilots, and fall of Catalonia, tracks republican fleet, role in republican collapse, participates in victory parade
Confederation Générale du Travail
Conservative Party
Contreras, Carlos
Cooper, Alfred Duff, (later Viscount Norwich)
Čopič?, General Vladimir
Coppi, General Giovanni
CorberaEbre
Cordillera Cantábrica
Córdoba, protests, province of, political killings, fr
ont
Cordon, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Antonio
Cornford, John
Corpe di Truppe Volontarie, (see CTV)
Cortada, Roldán
Cortés, Captain
Corunna
Corunna road battles
Cot, Pierre
Covadonga, as codeword
Cowan, Denis
Cowles, Virginia
Cristóbal, Major
Croix de Feu
Cruz Salido, Francisco
CTV (Corpe di Truppe Volontarie), on Guadalajara front, at Teruel, in Aragón offensive, in advance on Valencia
Cuatro Caminos
Cuenca, SIM prison
Cuenca, Victoriano
Cuerpo Legionario Italiano, (see also CTV)
Cuesta de la Reina
Cuesta Monereo, José
Cunard, Nancy
currency, hard, under Franco, see also gold reserves
Curto, Inocencio
Czechoslovakia
Dachau (concentration camp)
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
Daladier, Édouard
Dato (gunboat)
Dato e Iradier, Eduardo
Dávila, General Fidel, conquest of northern front, and battle of Teruel, and battle of Catalonia, occupies Barcelona
Dávila, Sancho
Dawson, Geoffrey (Times editor)
Day-Lewis, Cecil
de Gaulle, Charles
de Jouvenal, Bernard
DEDIDE (Departamento Especial de Información del Estado)
del Rio, Felipe
Delaprée, Louis
Delasalle, Major Gaston
Delbos, Yvon
Delgado Serrano, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Francisco
Delmer, Sefton
desertion
Deterding, Henry
Deutschland (German warship)
Diario Oficial
Díaz, Francisca
Díaz Alor, José
Díaz Baza, Ángel
Díaz Criado, Colonel Manuel
Díaz Sandino, Colonelb Felipe
Díaz Tendero, Captain Eleuterio
Dimitrov, Georgi
Domingo, Marcelino
Dos Passos, John
Doussinague, José María
Doval Bravo, Major Lisardo
Dronne, Captain Raymond
Duchesne, Captain
Duclos, Jacques
Dulles, John Foster
Durán, Gustavo
Durango
Durruti, Buenaventura, orders attack on Atarazanas barracks, and defence of Madrid, death and funeral, with prisoner
Dzigan, Yefim
Ebro, River, battle of, propaganda about, losses at, air tactics, mistakes at
economy, Catalan, First World War boom, and shipment of gold reserves, crisis in republican zone, under Franco, see also agriculture; currency; gold reserves; industry; unemployment