Word: alcazar
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...Navy sailed out on its brave, hopeless campaign against the upstart Yanqui tinpots and presently ceased to be a going concern. Having no warships to speak of, the Spanish Government decided to shut the Naval Academy down; 14-year-old Francisco went instead to the military academy in the Alcazar of Toledo. If he had followed his planned career he might have been a captain or admiral by 1936, when rebel naval officers were heaved over the sides of their warships by Loyalist crews...
...Falangistas intended to kill War Minister General José Varela, twice winner of Spain's Grand Laureled Cross of St. Ferdinand, who relieved the siege of the Alcazar in Spain's preview of World War II. The grenade killed four people, but not General Varela. He demanded Serrano's scalp and the execution of the Falangistas involved. (A Madrid dispatch broadcast from Germany last week reported that one Juan José Dominguez was executed "for throwing hand grenades...
...blank, uncomprehending eyes. Symbolic of Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
Mexico City -Reader Dorantes is right on two counts: 1) The Alcazar did not fall; the late Webb Miller witnessed the end of the siege. 2) Its ten-week defense must be acknowledged one of the most heroic in modern history...
...heroic thing about Franco's men is that the Alcazar did not fall. Or am I wrong...