Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free Czechoslovakia, he was now a sick exile from the country he helped found. Pious Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Man of 1937, was forced to retreat to a "New" West China, where he faced the possibility of becoming only a respectable figurehead in an enveloping Communist movement. If Francisco Franco had won the Spanish Civil War after his great spring drive, he might well have been Man-of-the-Year timber. But victory still eluded the Generalissimo and war weariness and disaffection on the Rightist side made his future precarious...
...Fascintern, with Hitler in the driver's seat, with Mussolini, Franco and the Japanese military cabal riding behind, emerged in 1938 as an international, revolutionary movement. Rant as he might against the machinations of international Communism and international Jewry, or rave as he would that he was just a Pan-German trying to get all the Germans back in one nation, Führer Hitler had himself become the world's No. 1 International Revolutionist?so much so that if the oft-predicted struggle between Fascism and Communism now takes place it will be only because two revolutionist dictators. Hitler...
Harold Goodman. British vice consul at San Sebastian in Rightist Spain, arrived at the border town of Trim last week on his way to France. The customs officers of Generalissimo Francisco Franco passed his diplomatic pouches but searched his unofficial baggage thoroughly. Well they might, for Vice Consul Goodman's baggage contained some very interesting items. Wrapped in one of his dirty shirts they found: 1) a collection of maps giving the positions of Rightist troops; 2) detailed reports of disaffection in Generalissimo Franco's Spain; 3) a list of 200 of the Generalissimo's spies operating...
...long overdue, widely advertised, win-the-war offensive of Generalissimo Francisco Franco began at dawn one clear, cold day last week in western Catalonia. Hardest fighting took place in the mountainous section near Tremp, where snow was so deep that communications bogged and the temperature was so low that water froze in the cooling jackets of machine guns. A second, lighter attack, believed to be merely a diversion, took place in the flatter country near the Segre River...
...week's end no large-scale revolt against Generalissimo Franco had materialized, but reports, rumors and facts did provide some inescapable conclusions: 1) there was widespread if suppressed disaffection in Insurgent Spain; 2) the slogan "Spain for the Spaniards," introduced by grapevine from Loyalist Spain, was making trouble for Generalissimo Franco's Italian allies; 3) the Loyalists had an efficient espionage service in their enemy's territory...