Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simplest terms, is merely a war of movement, as opposed to a war of position, carried out with the fastest units available. Before World War I it was cavalry that flanked enemy positions, cut off communications, destroyed supplies. In both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 the Germans won their decisive battles within six weeks after hostilities began. In the last World War they tried and failed-but only after the retreat from Paris did the War settle down to one of position and exhaustion. This time Brauchitsch had previous German experience...
Douhet believed that early control of the air is essential for quick victory. This was proved in Spain, where Germany tested many theories and where Franco took two years to get control of the air, then won hands down. By 1937, when General Brauchitsch took command at Leipzig, it was already pretty clear that to deliver a lightning blow Germany needed not only a superlative air force, but plenty of motorized strength...
Rimbaud was brought up by a tight-fisted mother who was open-handed only with her slaps. Until he was 15, she took him to school every day so that he would not tarry with naughty schoolmates. During the dislocations of the Franco-Prussian War, Rimbaud, who was already writing verse, ran away to Paris. There the penniless poet, little more than a pretty-faced child, slept in a barracks: the soldiers "assaulted" him. This shocking experience, which sent him shuddering home, caused not merely a "revulsion," says Author Starkie, but a sensual "revelation." At home, Rimbaud...
President of Council of Ministers: General Francisco Franco...
...European war as return for their participation in the Spanish war. Last week the Soviet-German Pact gave Spain a perfect out, which she was quick to seize. How could Spain fight hand in hand with Communism, which she had spent three years stamping out? Last week General Francisco Franco took steps to insure absolute neutrality: closed Spain's border with France, hastened demobilization of his troops, dissolved surviving branches of his General Staff...