Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wooing by Britannia and La Belle France of little Francisco Franco received a set-back last week. The French-British courtship had been planned along these lines: the Loyalists were to be persuaded to quit, the Rebel Generalissimo was to be recognized and then, it was hoped, he could be persuaded to jilt Germany and Italy, who had helped him so well to win his war. But, to the democracies' chagrin, the Generalissimo suddenly got the sulks...
...French Ambassador to Spain, would not return to Loyalist territory. Senator Léon Bérard, who has already been to Rebel Spain on one "unofficial" mission, returned to Burgos, this time for "official" negotiations. Sir Robert Hodgson, British Agent to Rebel Spain, began long talks with Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, Rebel Foreign Minister...
Testy, sour-pussed General Francisco J. Múgica, onetime Minister of Communications and Public Works, is an ardent Leftist and widely regarded as the man who will wear the Cardenas silks in the race. He offered to hold a banquet for his two leading rivals, conservative General Manuel Avila Camacho, who resigned as Minister of National Defense, and moderate General Rafael Sánchez Tapia, resigned commander of the Federal Military Zone. The feast would show the country that the three could be political rivals and still good friends. Unfortunately, his opponents did not feel the same way about...
...have been fighting the losers' battles with boycotts. Fortnight ago U. S. Department of Commerce breakdowns of 1938 foreign trade figures measured the boycotts' success. Last week, to stimulate revival of trade, Germany set up a German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast in San Francisco; and in Chicago the German Consul General for the Midwest revealed he was trying to barter German machinery, harmonicas, barbed wire for several hundred thousand tons of U. S. lard...
Hustling home to San Francisco, old A. P. immediately took his battle to the public. Snapped this onetime backer of the New Deal: "I found bright young men, fresh from academic halls, completely uninformed of life and experience and the ways of business, dominating important councils. By using the force of propaganda they try to compensate...