Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burgos, capital of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Insurgent Spain, the press blithely ducked Mr. Roosevelt's condemnation of aggressors and his recommendation that the U. S. neutrality law be revised to forestall them. "The shoe," remarked the Insurgent newsorgan, Voz de España, "does not fit Burgos...
After twelve days of fierce fighting Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco's "win-the-war" offensive against Catalonia temporarily slowed down last week. At week's end the red-&-gold Insurgent flag flew over two sizable new bulges of terri tory totaling about 750 square miles. If Insurgent troops pierce another 16 miles into Catalonia to take Artesa, then Barce lona, the Loyalist capital, will be seriously threatened...
...number of soldiers was far less than that on the Western front in 1914-18, the Rebel concentration of artillery was as great as that used by the Germans at Verdun- about one cannon to every ten yards. In the northern sector of the offensive, near Balaguer. Generalissimo Franco's troops pounded the enemy with a fierce artillery barrage, then bombarded the Loyalists from the air, then attacked with from 100 to 150 tanks. Finally his infantry moved...
Also from Italy came details of material help to Generalissimo Franco. Dictator Benito Mussolini's controlled press told how, in the last two months, new equipment had been sent from Italy to Spain, including more machine guns, better artillery, bigger reserves of munitions. Previously described was the Italian "Legion of the Air" in Spain, working out of Majorca, and its system of "chain bombing of murderous intensity" over Loyalist territory...
Most embarrassed by these disclosures was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has said many times that he took Il Duce's word for it that Italian help to Generalissimo Franco would be reduced, not increased. Three months ago a token withdrawal of 10,000 Italian troops from Spain took place. On that showing Mr. Chamberlain implemented an Anglo-Italian treaty. Although Dictator Mussolini was expected to demand of the Prime Minister at Rome next week (see p. 21) that Britain grant belligerent rights to Rebel Spain, from London last week came hints that Mr. Chamberlain, for his part...