Word: emilio
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...quid pro quo only half was disclosed. What Franco got was not revealed, though he was rumored to have bought the lives of several prominent Whites; but what General Miaja got was his great big bouncing family: Mother Miaja, Daughters Pepita, Concha, Luisa and Teresa, and Son Emilio...
...mountain passes to the north of Madrid, where the improperly trained conscripts of White General Emilio Mola have been brawling with the even more improperly trained Government militia for three months, cold rains turned to sleet, then to snow, choked the mountain passes...
After this bit of White pageantry, Spain's civil chaos remained in status quo, except that White Franco established his so-called Government as a Triumvirate, the two lesser prongs of this political trident being White North General Emilio Mola and White South General Queipo de Llano. "I promise cordial relations with every nation except Soviet Russia," cried White Franco, "and bread and heat for every Spanish home this winter...
...week for the story that the populace had crucified five monks and burned nuns alive. In fact last week largely was devoted to debunking Irun's more fantastic Red & White atrocity yarns. Meanwhile in nearby San Sebastian, next objective of a White Army under direct command of General Emilio Mola, there actually appeared a number of Spaniards who had not gone hog wild-Basques...
Next day the battle opened in earnest, with General Emilio Mola personally commanding the White forces against Irun. They advanced under withering fire and at the last moment the Communist defenders of Irun broke and ran but not the Anarchists. With their philosophy of "direct action" it seemed to defending Anarchists that the thing to do before giving up Irun was to set torches to this ''Wool Capital of Spain" and burn it to the ground. Newly famed Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti sounded the keynote when he cried ''We are not in the least afraid of ruins...