Editing May Days (section)

=== Preliminary events ===

On 2 May, the Minister of the Navy and Air Force, [[Indalecio Prieto]], telephoned the [[Generalitat]] from Valencia. An anarcho-syndicalist telephonist on the other side replied that in Barcelona there was no government, only a Defense Committee.<ref name="Thomas706" /> The government was convinced that anarchists were recording their telephone conversations since they, of course, had the means to do so.<ref name="Thomas706" /> The same day, there was a call from President [[Manuel Azaña]] to Companys, President of the Generalitat. During the conversation, it was cut by the operator, who said that the lines should be used for more important purposes than a mere talk between presidents.<ref>Miravitlles, p. 141.</ref>