Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...within a vastly larger body. Having recently embraced a program so broad that no liberal citizen could oppose it in toto, Communists now claim that a vast majority of citizens favor it. For instance, a poll of 418 authors discloses that only California's Gertrude Atherton espouses Francisco Franco's cause. Communists are pleased, for they espouse the cause of Loyalist Spain. President Roosevelt frowns vaguely at the Fascist dictatorships. Communists are pleased. C. I. O. industrial unionism grows apace. Communists rejoice...
...peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
Keystone of the Anglo-Italian negotiations was Italy's pledge to withdraw her troops from Rightist Spain, at which time the agreement would go into effect. This seemed "realistic" indeed at the time. Day before the pact was signed Rightist Generalissimo Franco's troops planted their flags on the shores of the Mediterranean and both Chamberlain and Mussolini were convinced that further Leftist resistance would be short-lived. But the Leftists refused to quit. And the thing that gave them most heart was the arrival of at least 200 new planes, presumably from Russia (see p. 16), besides...
Fortnight ago, faced with a report from Generalissimo Franco that additional support was needed to quash the Leftists, pugnacious Premier Mussolini blurted out in a speech at Genoa that he could not guarantee success for the French-Italian conversations because in "the war in Spain, we are on opposite sides of the barricades." Before agreement could be reached Italy demanded, it was reported: 1) that France close her borders to Leftist supplies* and thus probably permit a Franco victory; 2) that France discard her military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have...
With events at this crucial stage, Prime Minister Chamberlain moved quickly to save the Franco-Italian agreement from complete discard and to save his own Italian pact from collapse. In Rome British Ambassador Lord Perth called on Foreign Minister Ciano, urged him to continue the talks. In London, the Earl of Plymouth was instructed to call the moribund Committee on Non-intervention into session this week. There Britain will propose that France close her Pyrenees frontier to supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week...