Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BARCELONA--A fleet of 41 Insurgent planes into today dropped 300 bombs on the beach at Sagunto, 25 miles south of Generalissimo Franco's spearhead in his drive on Valencia, but caused only slight damage, the war office announced. Government anti-aircraft batteries brought down two of the raiding planes, the report said...
Britain and Bombs. At Burgos, Spanish Rightist capital. British Agent Sir Robert Hodgson informed Generalissimo Franco's Government of His Britannic Majesty's Government's "horror" at civilian losses in Leftist Spain. At Tokyo, British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
Mediator Chamberlain was represented as believing it possible: 1) that Fiihrer Adolf Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies; 2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish Leftist Premier Juan Negrin to declare a truce; 3) that Leftists and Rightists would agree to a government of Spain formed by "neutral" Spaniards in which Catalonia would remain autonomous...
...current history to suit themselves. Last week in Rome, Fascist Italy celebrated an "Italo-Spanish solidarity day" to whip up enthusiasm for the Spanish Rightist cause. Presence of Italian "volunteers'" with scarred faces, empty sleeves, lost legs, lucidly illustrated Italy's participation in the war. Representing Generalissimo Franco was one-eyed, one-armed General Jose Millan Astray, founder 3 of Spain's Foreign Legion...
From the Leftist side in Spain, New York Times Correspondent Lawrence A. Fernsworth, temporarily in Marseille, reported last week that agents of the Leftist military police, dissatisfied with the slowness of civil judicial authorities in dispatching alleged members of Barcelona's "Fifth Column" (Franco supporters within the city), recently "started to take the law into their own hands by seizing prisoners at night and executing them in isolated spots. They had executed between 20 and 30 persons before their activities were ended...