Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Catholic Spain Pius XII was not so happy last week. He had heard that Generalissimo Francisco Franco wished to expel, as hostile to his regime, Tarragona's Francisco Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, who during the Spanish War was as near to being neutral as any ranking prelate (TIME, Dec. 26). Moreover, Franco wished to re-establish the 1851 concordat, which would enable him to appoint Spanish bishops, whereas the Vatican favored something more up-to-date. Franco appeared to be dunning the Church for payment for having protected...
...futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that battle with our fists and the fascists fought it with heavy artillery." Franco's advance on Barcelona: "An unarmed man is killed, and then the fascists step on his body to advance." Her pages on the evacuation of Barcelona, on the treatment the refugees received at the hands of the French Government, are dreadful reading. In February 1939 she came...
...thinking of resorting to stink bombs! We have five people living with us, and are getting our family life organized on a communist basis. Daddy hates every minute of it, but mother has risen to the occasion like an old war horse. After all, she dates from the Franco-Prussian War, so this is nothing new to her. By the way, why isn't America in this scrap? It was Roosevelt who pushed us into...
Blithely letting it teeter, Shaw shifts his base and conducts a League-of-Nations trial of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, with a British diplomat and a Soviet Commissar to whoop things up. In fantastic costumes and with grand-opera flourishes, truculent "Battler" (Maurice Colbourne), swaggering "Bombardone" and arrogant "Flanco" engage in a vicious dialectical dogfight, snapping at the judge and at one another like so many paradoxhunds...
These thousands of proven fighters would make a worthy windfall for the French Army, and these men, driven from their homes by totalitarian aggression, should be anxious for a crack at Hitler, without whose help Franco could have never...