Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generals seized power in Old Castile and Navarre, in the north, and in much of Andalusia, in the south. Their chosen leaders in order of authority were General José Sanjurjo, Marquis del Riff, General Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first...
...TIME. Feb. 14), whose army ran in panic on the Aragon front. Instead there are Leftist chiefs like Enrique Lister, leader of Madrid's famous 5th Regiment, nucleus of the People's Army, in charge of the defense of Catalonia, switched recently to the Valencia front. Generalissimo Franco's most trusted henchmen now are Generals Miguel Aranda, Rafael Garcia Valino and José Varela, each in charge of one of the three prongs of the Valencia drive. Last week General Varela's Castilian Army Corps won a signal victory by capturing heavily-fortified Mora de Rubielos...
With Rightist arms in possession of three-fourths of all Spain, with Rightist Armies steadily advancing, most observers believed last week that Franco was headed for a final victory. In a war full of surprises, however, with the retreating Leftist soldiers contesting every square mile, few could predict that victory would be soon...
Most delicate Daladier-Chamberlain finesse now being attempted is to detach from the Rome-Berlin Axis the dictatorial Government of Portugal, the country which has been Generalissimo Francisco Franco's chief source of transshipped munitions and troops all during the Spanish Civil War. This summer the Portuguese have been adroitly bargaining with Britain and Germany, haggling to see whether Democracy or Naziism would bid the higher. Portuguese ports have been alternately infested with British and German warships on "goodwill missions." According to London dispatches last week, a major bargain has now finally been struck by Portuguese Dictator...
...olive brown troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Rightist Army drove on through the vineyards, the fruit and palm trees of Spain's Levant last week. Edging down the Mediterranean coast a few miles a day, they camped each night a little nearer Valencia. Capturing the once pleasant and prosperous resort of Nules and the little town of Villavieja, two miles inland, as the week ended the Rightist Galician troops commanded by General Miguel Aranda were within ten miles of Sagunto, 25 miles of Valencia...