Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mussolini took him back, made him a Grand Councilor in 1935. Next year, Farinacci lost his right hand in the Ethiopian war, in 1937 went to Spain as liaison between Mussolini and Franco, boasts: "I unified the Spanish Fascist Falange Party machine!" Like Hitler, passionately fond of music and indifferent to women, No. 1 Italian Jew-Baiter Farinacci attended the pre-Czecho-slovak Crisis session of the Nürnberg Nazi Party Congress as head of the Italian Delegation...
...France are not likely to precipitate an immediate war crisis i Europe, this sudden irredentist campaign for Tunisia and Corsica gains added significance in its relation to the Rome-Berlin axis. That Mussolini should pick a fight with Paris at the very moment the Reich has signed a Franco-German Agreement indicates that the interests of the two dictators are diverging. As junior partner in the axis, Italy must rely more on German support than Germany on Italian support. Thus, while Mussolini had no choice but to swallow the distasteful Austrian "Anschluss," Hitler is in the position to refuse...
...legitimate Spanish Government and has not granted belligerent rights to Rightist Spain, any interference with U. S. shipping (as well as French or British) by the Rightist navy or air force would, under international law, be an "act of piracy." Legal niceties have not prevented Generalissimo Francisco Franco, however, from bombing British and French ships and seizing Scandinavian ships, although so far. with few exceptions, he has let U. S. shipping alone...
...declare in force the Italo-British treaty of last April. This instrument recognizes the Ethiopian conquest on the condition that "substantial" numbers of Italian troops are withdrawn from Spain. Spain recently said good-by to 10,000 Italians. There are still some 40,000 Italians fighting for General Franco, but Mr. Chamberlain told the House last week...
...subject of the future of Spain with both Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini. Both of them assured me most definitely that they had no territorial ambitions whatever in Spain, and I would remind you that when we were apparently faced with the prospect of a new major war, General Franco made a declaration of neutrality and said he would not violate the French frontier unless he were attacked from that quarter...