Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George MacDonald, rich public utilitarian of Manhattan, to head a committee to distribute 3,000,000 bus. of surplus U. S. wheat to non-combatants in Spain. Giving wheat to Spaniards of both sides impartially amounts to friendly aid to Spanish Loyalists, who need bread far worse than Generalissimo Franco's side. As such it is another gesture of democratic solidarity against dictators...
...have no strict legal right to intern a Loyalist ship because: 1) they have not formally recognized the Spanish War as other than a civil conflict; 2) they still recognize the Loyalists as the "friendly," legal Government of Spain; 3) they have not granted belligerent rights to Generalissimo Franco. Out weighing these objections, however, might easily be the consideration that a third attempt of the José Luis Diez to run for safety would again endanger British life & limb at Gibraltar...
...week's end, after three days of fighting, Generalissimo Franco's troops- Spaniards, Italians, Moors-had advanced an average of about five miles on a 100-mile front. Insurgent communiques claimed a rout near Tremp. but U. S. newsmen back of the Loyalist front saw no signs of panicky retreat. Both sides agreed that the full force of the offensive had not yet been launched...
Rightist long-range objectives appeared to be Barcelona, Loyalist capital, and Tarragona, to the south, from 60 to 80 miles away. Many ranges of hills lie between the front and the objectives. More important than anything else, however. Generalissimo Franco hopes to provide his ally. Dictator Benito Mussolini, with a first-class victory before January 11, when Dictator Mussolini meets British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Rome. Dictator Mussolini wants very much to persuade Mr. Chamberlain to grant Generalissimo Franco belligerent rights, most valuable of which would be the right to blockade. After that Loyalist Spain, already near famine, could...
Died. General Severiano Martinez Anido, 76, "The White Terror," Minister for Public Order in Generalissimo Franco's Spain; in Valladolid (see p. 16). General Anido had been mentioned for the post of dictator if the Rebels should...