Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week began, the armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved on Barcelona from three sides...
...Cabinet declared martial law throughout Loyalist Spain. There was no panic as Rebel planes flew over Barcelona in almost continuous bombing raids (General Franco himself had a look at the city from the air and was shot at), as the city lived what might well be its last hours under the Spanish Republic. When a Loyalist squadron gave fight to Rebel attackers in a midday raid, the people ran out in the streets and cheered wildly. The rumble of Rebel artillery was distinctly heard. Until martial law was declared movies were still crowded, the opera was beginning another series. Evacuation...
Meanwhile, Generalissimo Franco set up a council to govern Barcelona Province when and if it were taken. He named the Count of Montseny Mila y Camps, a Catalan, as the council's president. Reviewing the offensive before a meeting of his Ministers, the Generalissimo called upon all his Spaniards to contribute money for the reestablishment of normal conditions in the captured area...
...Catholic pro-Franco minority last week did a workmanlike job of sitting down hard on the U. S. arms embargo on Spain, which many a friend of the Loyalists had hoped to have lifted during the present session of Congress. The "Lift the Embargo" campaign had the support of President Roosevelt's passing reference to the injustice of such measures in his opening message to Congress. But the lifters, badly stage-managed, strained a muscle in their first heave last week...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's guns blasting a path into the city filled Barcelona with a constant rumble, drowned out at hourly intervals by his bombers which swept upon the city in relays and took and estimated 100 casualties in 12 raids...