Word: espa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was on July 18, 1936. Five days earlier Europe had been warned of the extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French...
...fugitives, killed scores more in clashes in the dense thickets of the Navarre border territory. A few prisoners managed to escape to France and there revealed that many of those who took part in the escape were not Leftist prisoners of war but Rightists, members of the Falange Española, clapped in jail for attempting a revolt against Rightist Generalissimo Franco...
...reported imprisoned because he had publicly rebuked the Dictator for indiscriminate bombings and the employment of German and Italian assistance (TIME, May 23). Last week. Callender revealed that General Yague had gone much further. General Yague is a popular Left-wing leader of the Falange Española, the blue-shirted group of some 1,000,000 members, officially recognized as an instrument of the State much like Il Duce's Fascists. To a group of these in a Burgos theatre, General Juan Yague last month announced: "Our leader [General Franco] has said that no home shall lack bread...
...Galician troops went down to the shore and jubilantly planted their red & gold banners in the sands. Not a few hands made the ceremony complete by going in for a swim. The populace under Leftist rule for the past 21 months changed politics quickly. Shouting the Franco shibboleth, "Viva España!", they lined the streets as the troops marched in, singing "For God, Fatherland and King did our ancestors battle! For God, Fatherland and King also battle...
...waiting with great impatience. We are responsible people of Gijón and the enthusiasm in our streets is overwhelming. Arriba España! Viva Franco...