Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great pressure has been brought to bear upon French political circles by British diplomacy," cabled French Ace Political Commentator "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud) to the Chicago Daily News. To the same newsorgan, London Correspondent William H. Stoneman wrote: "The British Government wants Rebel Generalissimo Franco to win the Spanish War and to win it in a hurry." British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain refused last week to act to protect frequently bombed and sunk British ships in Leftist ports...
...goal of a desperate seven-week campaign was almost reached last week by Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Army of Moors, Italians and Spaniards on the eastern front. Converging from a concave line in three directions, columns of Rightist troops pierced beyond the heavy fortifications of Albocacer, surrounded Lucena del Cid, were within easy gunshot at week's end of the ruined port of Castellon de la Plana (Big Castle of the Plain). In the north was reported the slow retreat toward France of the Leftist "Lost Division"of 10,000 militiamen, 3,000 peasants, trapped for eleven weeks...
...Spanish Morocco. In Italy, no secret was made of heavy replacements of airplanes and pilots for the Rightist air force and it was freely predicted that Dictator Benito Mussolini might have to dispatch more "volunteers'' to Spain before the Rightists could win the war. At Burgos, Generalissimo Franco was reported to have ordered more air raids on merchant shipping at Leftist ports...
...Grange, the president would be surprised but would be glad to accept the student tuition-free. Last week a group of 55 famed U. S. educators and scientists wrote to 500 U. S. college presidents offering them not athletes, but the pick of refugee scholars from Germany, Italy and Franco Spain...
This indignant blast by Producer Walter Wanger last month; announcement that during the filming of Blockade mysterious strangers had been snooping about the set; and a report that when it was completed, a print was sent to General Franco's agents were all characteristic of the ballyhoo preceding the release of this picture. Consequently, when Blockade finally appeared last week, the cinema industry justifiably anticipated a polemic sensation that would jolt other producers' self-imposed silence on controversial subjects from totalitarian government to the relative merits of Scotch and bourbon whiskey...