Word: espa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city which had once been the heart of Republican resistance soon echoed with cries of Arriba España! Viva Franco! The clenched fist became the upraised arm. Some 40,000 secret Fascist sympathizers -members of the Fifth Column-dropped their Republican disguise, took over the city even before the first of Franco's troops had crossed the Manzanares River and taken actual possession of Madrid. Out of hiding in foreign embassies and legations came hundreds of Franco partisans...
...backed negotiator who was largely responsible for turning the face of Madrid from defiance to surrender, counseled: "Madrileños! . . . The moment has arrived for avoiding further bloodshed. . . . Let us all be calm and serene, at present, accepting the surrender of Madrid as the best means of salvation. . . . Viva España!" Thus ended, after two years, four months and 21 days, one of the most heroically defended seiges in history...
...their experienced officers, leaving only inexperienced men in command; 2) the Franco fleet was rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship España and the cruiser Baleares, Besides losing several submarines, the Loyalist battleship Jaime I, "pride of the fleet," was irreparably damaged, is now laid up at Cartagena...
...Burgos, capital of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Insurgent Spain, the press blithely ducked Mr. Roosevelt's condemnation of aggressors and his recommendation that the U. S. neutrality law be revised to forestall them. "The shoe," remarked the Insurgent newsorgan, Voz de España, "does not fit Burgos...
...Luis Diez crept back to Gibraltar, and was beached in shallow water behind the Mole. That afternoon the British destroyer Vanoc gave Rightist and Leftist dead a sea burial. For the superior Rightist Navy the battle was partial revenge for the sinking a year ago of its battleship España, the torpedoing last winter of its cruiser Baleares...