Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Europe there were a few signs that fear of immediate war was ebbing. In London war-insurance rates were cut. Belgium discharged one-third of the technical experts recently called to the colors at Antwerp. Generalissimo Francisco Franco demobilized 200,000 Fascist troops. Moreover, it was thought that Dictator Benito Mussolini would scarcely let his beloved daughter, Countess Edda Ciano, sail for Brazil if he were on the warpath...
...Mussolini's tens of thousands of soldiers were swaggering around the Spanish landscape during the recent civil war, Adolf Hitler's men modestly stayed in the background, playing a less conspicuous but no less effective role. II Duce sent not only airmen but infantrymen to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquer the stubborn Spanish Republicans. Spectacularly he took over the strategic island of Majorca as a bombing base, bombastically he bragged about the brave exploits of his legionnaires...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco held at Barajas Field, some eight miles from Madrid, a final review for the German, Italian and Spanish airmen who fought on his side in the war. Wearing the blue-grey uniform of the Spanish Air Force, flanked by his usual mounted Moorish guards, El Caudillo took the salute from 1,500 Italians of the Littorio Legion, 5,000 Germans of the Condor Legion, 3,500 Spaniards. To 15 German and eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present...
...Spanish gold held in France since the start of the war caused trouble between Spain and France. Jose Felix Lequerica, Spanish Ambassador to France, demanded that France return the gold according to an agreement reached between French Senator Leon Berard and Spanish Foreign Minister Count Francisco de Jordana before French recognition of the Franco Government. French Premier Daladier demanded that Spain first take back all of the 400,000 Spanish refugees on French soil who want to go back, and pay for the support of the rest. Upshot was that Senor Lequerica threatened to return to Burgos for good. Premier...
Robert Lee Frost, a ninth-generation New Englander (whose Yankee father expressed his Southern sympathies by naming his son after General Robert E. Lee), was born in San Francisco, where his father had become embroiled in politics, in 1875. After his father's death, his schoolteacher mother moved the family back to New England. Frost went to high school in Lawrence, Mass. At school, a passage in Virgil's Georgics suddenly made him understand what it was to be a poet. He began to write; but meanwhile, after Dartmouth proved too academic...