Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy secretly sold Spanish Insurgent Generalissimo Franco's navy two 1937-built submarines and four old destroyers in 1938, the Falco, Aquila, Guglielmo Pepo, Alessandro Poerio...
Former King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week had the curious but pleasant sensation of becoming a citizen of his native country. He was made so by a decree of Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself. To the 52-year-old Alfonso, now living in Italy, were restored (so far as Insurgent Spain could do so) the rights he lost after he fled the country in 1931 and was "tried" in absentia before the Republic's Parliament. The Republic found him guilty of high treason, confiscated his properties, ordered his immediate arrest should he ever be caught in Spain again...
...total recovery of property to about $3,500,000. The crown properties (castles, palaces, etc.) are still considered State property by Rightists and Leftists alike. More important, however, an opening has been made, possibly for Alfonso's return to the throne in the event of a final Franco victory, more likely for a crown for the healthier of Alfonso's two living sons, 25-year-old Prince Juan...
Most likely spots for the Big Push are the Sagunto sector, where the Insurgent drive on Valencia was halted by the Loyalist counteroffensive on the Ebro four months ago, or the area around Lerida in the north, where an Insurgent break-through would place Franco within striking distance of Barcelona...
Chief hope of the Loyalists when the Big Push gets under way is to start a diverting counterthrust at some inactive section of the front. So far this maneuver has always stopped Franco sooner or later because he has never had enough men to fight in two big areas at the same time...